Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Dan Landis, Rosita D. Albert (auth.), Dan Landis, Rosita D. Albert (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 670
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although group conflict is hardly new, the last decade has seen a proliferation of conflicts engaging intrastate ethnic groups. It is estimated that two-thirds of violent conflicts being fought each year in every part of the globe including North America are ethnic conflicts. Unlike traditional warfare, civilians comprise more than 80 percent of the casualties, and the economic and psychological impact on survivors is often so devastating that some experts believe that ethnic conflict is the most destabilizing force in the post-Cold War world. Although these conflicts also have political, economic, and other causes, the purpose of this volume is to develop a psychological understanding of ethnic warfare. More specifically, Handbook of Ethnopolitical Conflict explores the function of ethnic, religious, and national identities in intergroup conflict. In addition, it features recommendations for policy makers with the intention to reduce or ameliorate the occurrences and consequences of these conflicts worldwide.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxix
Introduction: Models and Theories of Ethnic Conflict....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Ethnocultural Conflict and Cooperation in Hawai‘i....Pages 21-44
Ethno-Cultural Conflict in Aotearoa /New Zealand: Balancing Indigenous Rights and Multicultural Responsibilities....Pages 45-69
The Moro Struggle and the Challenge to Peace Building in Mindanao, Southern Philippines....Pages 71-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Ethnopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka: Trajectories and Transformations....Pages 93-118
Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: The Need for “Constant Repair” in the Spirit of Muhibbah....Pages 119-136
India and the Culture of Peace: Beyond Ethnic, Religious, and Other Conflicts....Pages 137-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Ethno-Political Conflicts in China: Toward Building Interethnic Harmony....Pages 177-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: The Sociohistorical Context and the Identities It Creates....Pages 199-240
Ethnopolitical Conflict in Turkey: From the Denial of Kurds to Peaceful Co-existence?....Pages 241-260
Ethnopolitical Conflict in Turkey....Pages 261-291
Communication Across the Divide in the Cyprus Conflict....Pages 293-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Lessons Learned from the Former Yugoslavia: The Case of Croatia....Pages 327-348
Ethno-political Conflict in Kosovo: Cultivating Trust in Serbian–Albanian Post-conflict Peace building....Pages 349-377
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
Ethnic Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)....Pages 381-402
Ethnocultural Conflict in Uganda: Politics Based on Ethnic Divisions Inflame Tensions Across the Country....Pages 403-435
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
Ethnocultural Conflict in Spain: Moroccans in Spain – So Near, Yet So Far. A Long History of Meeting While Not Meeting....Pages 439-482
Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in France....Pages 483-506
Frictions Between Muslims and Non-Muslims in the Netherlands....Pages 507-522
Front Matter....Pages 523-523
Mexico’s Ethnic Conflict....Pages 525-552
Front Matter....Pages 523-523
Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the Conflict in Peru....Pages 553-583
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Ethnic Conflict from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Lessons Learned, Policy Implications, and Recommendations for Conflict Amelioration and Peace Building....Pages 587-630
Back Matter....Pages 631-647

✦ Subjects

Cross Cultural Psychology; Community and Environmental Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology; Clinical Psychology