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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Ethnic Violence"”.
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Preventing the press from engendering ethnic violence : press restraints and ethnic violence in Singapore
… to find a solution to a commonly held problem of ethnic violence that is engendered by the press. Based on the premise that governmental influence on the press in the form of press restraints can prevent the recurrence of deadly ethnic violence, it argues for certain types of press restraints in …
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Dangerous diasporas : émigré nationalism and ethnic violence
The number of exceptionally brutal ethnic confrontations that followed the end of the Cold War brought with them question of diaspora contributions to violence. The unwritten assumption was that diaspora compatriots were natural allies, sharing a strong sense of nationalism and standing at the …
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Not my brother's keeper: How ethnic violence causes infighting
Why, during an ethnic conflict, would an ethnic group turn its weapons against itself? That is the question that motivates this dissertation. Such behavior is puzzling because as an ethnic group devotes valuable time, energy, and resources on an intra-group conflict, it reduces the total amount of …
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Conflicts of consciousness : the state, Inkatha and ethnic violence in Natal
… with the state. This dissertation situates the violence and the operation of Inkatha in a larger theoretical framework that focuses upon state-society relations. A significant part of the dissertation centres on an attempt to answer the question: why is it that certain Zulu choose to join …
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The electoral incentives for ethnic violence : Hindu-Muslim riots in India
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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Ethnic Violence on Kenya's Periphery: Informal Institutions and Local Resilience in Conflict-Affected Communities
<p>Deadly, inter-ethnic group conflict remains a threat to international security in a world where the majority of armed violence occurs not only within states but in the most ungoverned areas within states. Conflicts that occur between groups living in largely ungoverned areas often become deeply …
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Mobilizing for Ethnic Violence? Ethno-national Political Parties and the Dynamics of Ethno-politicization
… winning a decisive majority of the vote of ethnic Serbs. Yet, SDS BiH was not an ordinary political party. In the sixteen months that followed the elections, it initiated a series of activities that eroded the power of BiH institutions to which it had been elected. SDS BiH declared its own …
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Resurgent Ethnic Violence in Post-War Societies: A Comparative Assessment of Externally Guaranteed Consociational Experiments
This thesis examines why violent ethnic conflict re-emerges following a power-sharing agreement in states that have witnessed civil wars. By surveying the post-war state-building experiences of Lebanon, Iraq, Northern Ireland and Bosnia, it evaluates and compares the record of consociational …
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Transforming destructive ethnic violence: an exploration of the role of forgiveness in political reconciliation in Burundi
Violence, ethnic violence, in particular, dehumanizes its victims and perpetrators. It shatters selves and destroys relationships without which life is impossible. To restore the dignity of the survivors of ethnic violence, what was done to them must be acknowledged as evil and its perpetrators …
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
… wisdom on causal factors behind the rise of ethnic political parties in multiethnic democracies. The thesis contends that ethnic party success is primarily driven by insecurities borne from ethnic violence. Original data from fieldwork in India provides evidence that demand for security from …
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The long way home: a critical ethnography of youth and conflict in northeast India
… and their relationship to varied expressions of ethnic violence in Northeast India (South Asia). Taking Garo Hills region of Northeast India as the site of inquiry, this dissertation interrogates the culture of normalized everyday violence and it reconfigures identities and subjectivities of …
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Political violence and inter-ethnic conflict: an analysis with reference to Chechnya and Northern Ireland
… in the emergence and continuation of inter-ethnic violence and division. A willingness for one ethnic group to engage in political violence against another requires the acceptance of ideological constructs that stress difference - political movements that position other ethnic groups as `the …
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ETHNO-NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL ASIA
… with disbelief the tragic unfolding of inter-ethnic violence in the land of ‘eternal friendship of brotherly nations’. Their disbelief, though understandable, presents the two puzzles that this dissertation addresses: (1) “how can one explain the outbreak of unprecedented inter-ethnic clashes …
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Resisting division along ethnic lines: a case study of two communities who challenged discourses of war during the Yugoslav conflict 1991-1995
… the 1991-1995 war in the former Yugoslavia as an ethnic conflict caused by longstanding antagonisms among homogenous ethnic groups inhabiting its territory. In such a worldview, which became part of the dominant discourse, inter-ethnic violence in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was inevitable and …
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It takes two hands to clap conflict, peacebuilding, and gender justice in Jonglei, South Sudan
… United Nations has warned that escalating inter-ethnic violence threatens to destabilize the country and many regions in South Sudan have “plummeted into self-perpetuating cycles of violence, cattleraiding, banditry and loss of human life. Jonglei state has seen some of the most extreme violence …
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Transitional Justice in Times of Conflict: A Case Study of the Barza Inter-Communautaire in the Kivus
… and the prevalence of different types of violence other than armed fighting. In the wake of this, the Kivus became entangled in a myriad of daunting challenges in their pursuit of justice and sustainable peace, particularly through the formal transitional justice mechanisms introduced by …
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Reality check on "Health for All": decision-makers, democratization and ethnic conflict in Burundi's primary care institutional culture
… that Burundi’s history of authoritarian rule and ethnic strife molded the country’s PHC approach over time. The 1988-1993 period characterized by government democratic transition, also witnessed a major in the Ministry’s approach shift towards decentralization and community participation. …
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Political violence in the American South: 1882-1890
… historical theory is that the threat of violence was a form of de facto disenfranchisement that prevented blacks from turning out to vote. Both historians and political scientists assume lynching to be the method through which the white population of the American South prevented political …
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Pragmatic Nationalism and Rural Groupness in Volhynia and the Chełm Lands, c. 1914-1945
… belonging from the late imperial era through the ethnic violence of the Second World War. Focusing on Polish- and Ukrainian-speaking villagers, the study challenges linear narratives that depict the countryside as a site of steady nationalization or inevitable radicalization. Instead, it argues …
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Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence: The Case of Domestic Terrorism on Behalf of Ethnic Groups
… theoretical clarity, I decided to deal only with ethnically motivated domestic terrorism since I argue that ethnic component as well as domestic focus significantly affect mobilization and targeting strategy. For the purpose of the PhD research, the Database Ethnically Motivated Terrorist Attacks …
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