How Enemies Are Made [electronic resource] : Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlee, Günther.

Series:

Integration and Conflict Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict management.

Ethnic conflict.

Social conflict--Religious aspects.

Local Subjects:

Conflict management.

Ethnic conflict.

Social conflict--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Summary:

In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory. The author develops a decision theory which explains the conditions under which differing types of identification are preferred. Group identification is linked to competition for resources like water, territory, oil, political charges, or other advantages. Rivalry for resources can cause conflicts but it does not explain who takes whose side in a conflict situa

Contents:

Title page-How enemies are made; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Part I-Introduction; Ch 1-Why we need a new conflict theory; Ch 2-The question; Ch 3-How this volume is organised; Part II-Theoretical frame; Ch 4-A decision theory of identification; Ch 5-The necessity for strategies of inclusion and exclusion; Ch 6-The conceptual instruments of exclusion and inclusion; Ch 7-Economics as sociology-sociology as economics; Ch 8-Markets of violence and the freedom of choice; Ch 9-Ethnic emblems, diacritical features, identity markers-some east African examples

Ch 10-Purity and power in Islamic and non-Islamic societies a nd the spectrer of fundamentalismCh 11-Language and ethnicity; Part III-Practical frame; Ch 12-Conflict resolution; Ch 13-On methods: how to be a conflict analyst; Ch 14-An update from 2007; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

645101946