Facing Ethnic Conflicts
Toward a New Realism
Contributions by Christopher J. Bakwesegha, Rogers Brubaker, Walker Connor, Andrew Ellis, Milton J. Esman, Hurst Hannum, Michael Hechter, Walter Kälin, René Lemarchand, Michael S. Lund, Hugh Miall, Norbert Ropers, Donald Rothchild, Valery A. Tishkov, Max van der Stoel, Angel Viñas, Peter Waldmann, I. William Zartman The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins U Edited by Andreas Wimmer, Richard J. Goldstone, Donald L. Horowitz, Ulrike Joras, Conrad Schetter
Publication date:
20 August 2004Length of book:
392 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
235x178mm7x9"
ISBN-13: 9780742535848
Ethnic conflict is the major form of mass political violence in the world today, and it has been since World War II. Dramatic acts of terrorism and calculated responses to them may distract the attention of policymakers and the public, but ethnic and nationalist conflict continues to pose the greatest challenge to peace and security across the globe. Causes of such conflict and ideas about how to address it are hotly debated in the literature that has emerged over the past fifteen years.
This volume offers a unique overview of research and policy approaches to ethnic conflicts. It is the first book to bring together experienced policymakers and key scholars from all disciplines. They debate how to best understand the rise and escalation of ethnic conflict, assess different strategies for peacemaking, mediation, and reconciliation, and evaluate the prospects for conflict management through institutional design.
In contrast with a more enthusiastic assessment of the willingness and capacity to successfully intervene in ethnic conflict, this volume documents the new realism that has emerged over the past decade. It recognizes the complex and protracted nature of such conflicts and demands a multifaceted, case-by-case approach sustained by long-term political engagement.
Published in co-operation with the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.
This volume offers a unique overview of research and policy approaches to ethnic conflicts. It is the first book to bring together experienced policymakers and key scholars from all disciplines. They debate how to best understand the rise and escalation of ethnic conflict, assess different strategies for peacemaking, mediation, and reconciliation, and evaluate the prospects for conflict management through institutional design.
In contrast with a more enthusiastic assessment of the willingness and capacity to successfully intervene in ethnic conflict, this volume documents the new realism that has emerged over the past decade. It recognizes the complex and protracted nature of such conflicts and demands a multifaceted, case-by-case approach sustained by long-term political engagement.
Published in co-operation with the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.
...Overall this book manages to systematically summarise the research on ethnic conflicts from different academic and practical political perspectives, while also proposing new ways, or a 'new realism', to understand and help resolving ethnic conflicts.