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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"ethnic conflicts"”.
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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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Intractable Intra-Ethnic Conflicts: The Case of Offa-Erinle Conflict, Kwara State, Nigeria.
<p><strong> Abstract</strong></p> <p>Intra-ethnic conflicts are often present in post-colonial West African nations, and these conflicts vary in type and severity. Land is a significant cause of violent conflicts, especially boundary disputes among major ethnic groups. These conflicts are assessed …
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Turkish-Kurdish Conflict: An Ethno-Symbolist Exploration of Turks' and Kurds' Territorial Homeland Claims
The conflict between ethnic minorities and nation-states has been subject to one of the most searching debates in the study of ethno-nationalism. The dominant approach among scholars is that ethnic conflicts stem from states' failure to recognize minority rights. Within the framework of this …
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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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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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Demokratizacija etnonacionalistinių partijų gniaužtuose: Bosnijos ir Hercegovinos atvejis /
… a typical peace-building strategy after violent ethnic conflicts. There is a consensus that democratic institutions, especially, power-sharing institutions are able to ameliorate inter-ethnic conflicts by peaceful means. However, power-sharing arrangements are also criticized because of its …
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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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An Arts-Based Educational Framework for Fostering Intercultural Unity in Kenya
Ethnic conflicts in Kenya have always been a problem since independence from Britain in 1963 and cultural diversity in Kenya has always posed great challenges to uniting Kenyans. In an attempt to address the challenges of cultural diversity in Kenya, this dissertation explores ways in which arts …
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CAPTIVITY AND CONVERSION: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF SOVIET POWS IN AFGHANISTAN
… of life in Afghanistan, human rights violations, ethnic conflicts and ritualistic hazing (dedovshchina or starikovshchina) that influenced Soviet soldiers to defect from the Red Army. In addition, I observe what issues most compelled some of these soldiers to convert to Islam and settle in …
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Challenges to democratic and economic transition in Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan: a comparative study of the political, economic and social structures in the three countries
… some Asian countries and elsewhere. A cycle of ethnic conflicts, economic collapse, poverty in both absolute and relative terms, political instability, civil wars (Ethiopia, Sudan) etc. have often plagued the three countries. These challenges have left events of many important questions, …
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The Caspian Sea Competition
… issues, including ongoing territorial and ethnic conflicts, as well as competition for resource control, have produced a renewed struggle for influence. The region's three historical rivals--Turkey, Iran and Russia--are centrally involved. Several industrialized nations have invested …
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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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The effects of elite-led power sharing on postconflict urban reconstruction: consociationalism and the Mostar case
… manifestations of regional, national, or global conflicts. Planners in such cities face a unique set of challenges; however, the effects of specific local governing systems on planning in divided cities remains understudied. Consociational democracy is a system of elite-led, power-sharing …
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Development perspectives of small and medium businesses in Georgia
… significantly enhanced by the civil war and by ethnic conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. During the ethnic conflicts and civil war the business and technical infrastructure were damaged and most of them were completely destroyed. Poverty and political instability were predominated. The …
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Why Do States Join Military Alliances?: The Case of Romania
… and security. The end of the Cold War brought ethnic conflicts and political instabilities in the Balkan region. Based on its size and geographical configuration, Romania again confronted its history in the alliance dilemma of whether to "balance" against threatening states or to "bandwagon" …
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The Reliable Author: James Baldwin’s Critique of Liberalism, Romanticism, and Western Monologism.
… and solutions to the problems of racial and ethnic conflicts in America. Although a nation with a vibrant landscape of multiethnic peoples, the United States still does not have the appropriate language to articulate a coherent understanding of race, society and “the other.” In particular, …
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War on architecture : scenographic strategies in tracing post-war home in the former SFR Yugoslavia
… domestic space, in the light of widespread ethnic, cultural and political violence across the globe. The study is distinctive in terms of positioning domestic space as a direct casualty and witness of violence. Its scenographic perspective, here applied inversely, frames war-torn domestic …
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Governance and conflict in Pakistan: Developing a Conflict Prevention and Reduction (CPR) model to promote peace in Baluchistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA)
… religious nation made up of four major regional ethnic sub-nations. The inability of the political leadership of Pakistan to successfully connect and merge the interests of the nation and sub-nations with the interests of the state has been a longstanding issue. This has weakened the central …
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Climate Change and Seed Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana
… by factors other than climate change, including ethnic conflicts, farmer-herder conflicts, and the use of synthetic farming inputs. Other non-climatic factors include the lingering impacts of neoliberal policies such as structural adjustment programs. In terms of adaptation to seed insecurity, …
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