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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"ethnic conflict"”.
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Ethnic Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire
… African continent has been the theatre of many ethnic conflicts. While people, in general, assume these conflicts to be political and blame the conflicts on authoritarian regimes, they dismissed the fact that conflict between ethnicities is a phenomenon that has occurred for hundreds of years …
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Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana
… and relatively slow pace of development of an ethnically divided, resource rich country.</p> <p>The study, using primary and secondary sources, empirical evidence, and interpretive analysis, examines the emergence and role of racial conflict and its stifling impact on national development in …
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Preventing the recurrence of ethnic conflict : lessons from the Middle East
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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Separatism in South Asia: The politics of ethnic conflict and regional security
Ethnicity has come to be recognized as an important, and in some cases a dominant factor in the search for regional peace and security. This dissertation examines the linkages in South Asia among ethnic conflict, the state and regional security. Our analysis of the Sikhs in the Indian province of …
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Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus : Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia
… to be manifestations of broader "interstate" conflicts pitting Azerbaijan and Georgia against, respectively, Armenia and Russia. They did not consider the actions of regional groups to be a product of group insecurities. The dissertation concludes by applying the above findings to the practice …
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Political violence and inter-ethnic conflict: an analysis with reference to Chechnya and Northern Ireland
With an emphasis on the conflicts of Nothern Ireland and Chechnya, this thesis investigates the contributing factors prevalent 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 …
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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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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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Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
… examines the problem of violent secessionist conflict and addresses an important debate at the intersection of comparative and international politics about the conditions under which secession is a peaceful solution to ethnic conflict. It demonstrates that secession is rarely a solution to …
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Causes of Lunda – Luvale conflict and why the problem still exists despite people trying to resolve it: a case of North-western province of Zambia.
… the root causes and the continuation of ethnic conflicts between the Lunda and Luvale of North Western province of Zambia. The objectives of the study were to: establish how the Lunda and Luvale ethnic conflict can threaten and impact on Zambia’s internal stability; examine the extent the …
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Causes of Lunda – Luvale conflict and why the problem still exists despite people trying to resolve it: a case of North-western province of Zambia.
… the root causes and the continuation of ethnic conflicts between the Lunda and Luvale of North Western province of Zambia. The objectives of the study were to: establish how the Lunda and Luvale ethnic conflict can threaten and impact on Zambia’s internal stability; examine the extent the …
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The inevitable clash? Inter-religious violence and local power-sharing in Nigeria
Since the end of the Cold War, intra-state or ethnic conflict has emerged as one of the most serious threats to the peace and stability of states in the international system. Inter-religious violence, in particular, and the politicization of new forms of resurgent religion are now a major …
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Examining Well-being and Vulnerability in Data-Poor Nations: Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan
… bodies of water, and (4) forecasting repeated ethnic conflict through the lens of human-environmental challenges from climate, migration, and conflict. I address research gaps in understudied and data-poor LMICs by generating new datasets and models to address human-environmental problems.
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An examination of the intercultural outcome of a policy of educational division based on spoken language : the case of educational policy in Vukovar, Croatia
… region struggling with the consequences of inter-ethnic conflict and human suffering. Poorly addressed post-ethnic reconciliation issues resulted in many challenges in everyday living for the people of Vukovar, especially so with the segregation of the public educational system based on language …
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Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
… of authoritarianism, illiberality, ethnic conflict and anti-Semitism. No longer viewed as aberrations arising from an inadequate understanding of modernity, such manifestations can be seen, to the contrary, as the direct outcome of ever-more intensive, deliberate and conscious …
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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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Class and ethnicity : the politics and ideologies of the Greek community in South Africa, circa 1890-1924
… demonstrates the significance of class and ethnicity as determinants of the political attitudes and ideologies of the Greek community in South Africa. The periodisation of the history of the Greek community in south Africa undertaken in this thesis supports five major hypotheses which are …
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Locating Albanian otherness via the black female body : an ethnographic inquiry of (non)belonging
… on processes of Orientalism, historical analyses ethnic conflict, and nationalism. The work presented here has been shaped by these discussions but is also an attempt to further deconstruct identity and nationalism vis-à-vis the ethnographic examination of belonging. Specifically, this paper …
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The ReSisters: Contemporary Ethiopia through a Feminist Lens
… power and agency wielded by the government, some ethnic groups in Ethiopia, including the Oromo ethnic group, claim to be underrepresented on a political, economic, and social scale, which has led to conflict.</p> <p>The nuances of ethnic based conflict, such as the situation in Ethiopia, have …
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