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Regional and Ethnic Conflicts: Perspectives from the Front Lines
Judy Carter, Royal Roads University
George E. Irani, Toledo, International Center for Peace
Vamik D. Volkan, MD, Emeritus, University of Virginia

ISBN-10: 0131894285
ISBN-13: 9780131894280

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 336 pp
Published: 02/12/2008

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Regional and Ethnic Conflicts: Perspectives from the Front Lines provides an alternative vantage point that contributes new perspectives to the study of ethnopolitical conflict.

 

The chapters comprising this reader have been contributed by people who have lived or worked in regions afflicted by ethnopolitical conflict. “Perspectives from the Front Lines” gives readers alternative, first-hand, front-line perspectives and insights on some of the major ethnopolitical conflicts plaguing the planet. Contributors describe and explain the factors and forces that have instigated and perpetuated the conflict in which they, their compatriots, and their enemies are ensnared. Contributors’ chapters provide front-line accounts of the realities and complexities of ethnopolitical conflict. Additionally, they note the clear and present danger that ethnopolitical conflicts pose to global security.

 

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 Multi-disciplinarity. Contributors come from several fields, including international relations, conflict management, government, non-governmental organizations, military, diplomatic service, law, sociology, psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, engineering and project management. In an effort to contribute new insights to a sometimes overlooked aspect of ethnopolitical conflict, special attention is paid to its socio-psychological dimensions. Purposely inviting contributors from diverse fields and perspectives to share their views succeeds in illustrating the many perspectives from which ethnopolitical conflicts can be viewed. Chapters are, in some cases, presented in pairs so that readers can study disputing sides’ views and reflect on their differing perspectives of the same conflict. Especially noteworthy is the chapter on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. By co-writing this chapter, its authors exemplify how parties with differing perspectives can respect each others’ views and work together.

 

Regional and Ethnic Conflicts aims to broaden the discussion and go beyond the usual single-discipline view presented in most academic texts. Rather than focusing on a specific conflict resolution theory or intervention strategy, this text encourages readers to inventory, weigh and contemplate the interplay between the many forces and factors involved in these intractable, violent conflicts.It encourages readers to consider the multi-dimensionality of ethnopolitical conflict, its many intertwined causes and the multi-pronged approaches needed to effect enduring, systemic change. By inviting front-line observers to share their stories, it is hoped that their passion and depth of expression will convey the complexity of these conflicts and the challenges that must be surmounted to resolve them and achieve lasting peace.

 

The contributors propose recommendations for action. They flag those aspects of the conflict they are analyzing that are most volatile and potentially deadly. They propose interventions and initiatives they believe will reduce and resolve tensions and promote peace. Contributors’ recommendations are synthesized and guidelines for action are presented in the concluding chapter.

 

A variety of countries are covered. Ethnopolitical conflicts discussed in Regional and Ethnic Conflicts including those in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka as well as those between Israel and Palestine, Turkey and Greece, Croatia and Serbia, and Macedonia and Albania, and India and Pakistan. In the cases presented, contributors go beyond conventional “real politik” analyses of ethnopolitical conflict. They look behind facts, figures, dates and names. They discuss how history, politics, geography, economic development and psycho-social factors such as identity, culture, beliefs and values can contribute to ethnopolitical conflict. Contributors write candidly about international intervention and show how it can cause or aggravate ethnopolitical conflict. Some reveal the effects of globalization and explain how it and modernization actually exacerbate ethnopolitical conflict. Others show how the uneven distribution of power and wealth, injustice, oppression, inequity, poverty and hopelessness can precipitate violence and terrorism.

 

Takes a case analysis approach. This text answers calls from within the conflict management field for less state-centric and more humanistic approaches to both conflict analysis and intervention. Additionally, this text showcases the power of disputants’ personal narratives to articulate what is at issue in a given conflict. It also reveals disputants’ ability to propose solutions that will resonate with and receive popular support from those who see aggression and even terrorism as the only effective ways of achieving their aspirations. 

CHAPTER 1. Ethnopolitical Conflict in Perspective  Judy Carter, George Irani, and Vamik D. Volkan

 

CHAPTER 2.  MACEDONIA

    The Ethnic Conflict in Macedonia from the Ethnic Macedonians’ Perspective: Being Victims in Their Own Country Relationships between Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia  Fatmir Musa

 

CHAPTER 3.  KASHMIR

    Jammu and Kashmir: An Indian View  Dipankar Banerjee

    Kashmir Dispute

 

CHAPTER 4.  CYPRUS

    The Cyprus Conflict: National Mythologies and Real Tragedies  Caesar V. Mavratsas

    Turkish and Greek Cypriots in Conflict  Kenan Atakol

 

CHAPTER 5.  ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

    Understanding Our Israeli/Palestinian Conflict and Searching for Its Resolution  Edward (Edy) Kaufman and Manuel Hassassian

 

CHAPTER 6.  RWANDA

    The Rwandan Conflict  Richard Batsinduka

 

CHAPTER 7.  SRI LANKA

    Sri Lanka’s “Ethnic” Conflict  David Ratnavale

 

CHAPTER 8.  GREECE AND TURKEY

    Historical Context, National Narrative, and Prospects of Reconciliation in the Aegean: The View from Athens  Kostas Ifantis

    Turkish-Greek Relations  Onur Öymen

 

CHAPTER 9.  NORTHERN IRELAND

    The Politics of Peace and War in Northern Ireland  Sean Byrne

    The Role of Constructive, Transcultural Storytelling in Ethnopolitical Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland  Jessica Senehi

 

CHAPTER 10.  SERBIA and CROATIA

    Serbia  Sonja Biserko

    Croatia: The Participant in Large Group Conflict  Eduard Klain

 

CHAPTER 11.  NIGERIA

    Mediated Hostility, Generation and Victimhood in Northern Nigeria  Conerly Casey

    Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Nigeria: The Case of Religious Conflict in Kano  Salisu A. Abdullahi

 

CHAPTER 12.  Lessons to Ponder: Insights and Advice from the Front Lines  Judy Carter 

Judy Carter teaches in the School of Peace and Conflict Management at Royal Roads University.

 

George E. Irani is the director of the Africa and Middle East Program of the Toledo International Center for Peace in Madrid, Spain.

 

Dr. Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine.

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