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Ethnicity and Power in the Contemporary World

  • Author: UNU
  • Publication date: September 1997
  • Page count: 308
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 96.III.A.8

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Violent internal conflicts are the predominant form of warfare in the world today and there is an urgent need to understand their causes and find ways for their prevention or resolution. The 15 essays collected here present a variety of perspectives, conceptions, arguments and conclusions regarding ethnicity, power and conflict in the contemporary world. Scholars from Africa, Europe, Asia and North America explore conflicts and conflict resolution approaches in regions of the former Soviet Union, the Horn of Africa, India, the Basque region of Spain, the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland and the United States.