Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence or the Politics of Conviction? - Hardcover

9780739110850: Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence or the Politics of Conviction?

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739110853 ISBN 13: 9780739110850

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2006

The existing traditions of inquiry into ethnic conflict can be classified into four categories: essentialism, instrumentalism, constructivism, and institutionalism. All four traditions have a distinguished lineage, but none can really account for the worldwide spread of ethnic violence. We need to move from the local to the macro or global. This book, using methodology from sociology, history, and politics, will present the complexities of ethnic conflict in terms of lingusitics, religion, territory, and tribes in various regions. These brilliant essays look at some of the most conflicted sites in the world, where ethnic violence has been created and played out: Burma, Indonesia, Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, the Sudan, Mexico, and Guyana. Divided into two parts, Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict is a rich text for scholars of conflict studies, focusing on the sources and dynamics of ethnic violence and providing descriptions of ethnic conflict across the globe.

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About the Author:

Santosh C. Saha is professor of history at Mount Union College in Ohio.

Review:

This volume is a new path-breaking enterprise both in normative and empirical terms. It is indispensable for public policy makers, diplomats, strategic community and scholars engaged in mind boggling excercises to deal with the complex ethno-political and ethno-religious conflicts with an aim to transform the anarchical world order into a safe, secure and peaceful world. (B. M. Jain, University of Rajasthan, India)

A timely volume that helps open our eyes to the reality of ethnic violence which afflicts virtually every country in the world today. One of its many contributions is the implicit warning it gives to those who exaggerate the virtues of multiculturalism. It makes us wonder which is stronger: ethnocenrism or muticulturalism? (Anthony Parel, University of Calgary)

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