Mbundu,Ovimbundu- an ethnic group speaking Umbundu and living in western Angola Tadzhik,Tajik- an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China Walloons- an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and east...
Since the end of the Cold War, the war in Afghanistan has been transformed from an ideological struggle into a brutal ethno-nationalist conflict. This transformation has largely been fuelled by Afghanistan's neighbours, most importantly Pakistan, which have pursued competing policies of cross-border ...
Mbundu,Ovimbundu- an ethnic group speaking Umbundu and living in western Angola Tadzhik,Tajik- an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China Walloons- an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and east...
Ethnic conflict thus shows regularities more or less similar to those found in many natural phenomena, including other aspects of human social behavior. These regularities make it possible to generalize and make tentative predictions about many aspects of ethnic conflict, such as probable duration, ...
Since the end of the Cold War, the war in Afghanistan has been transformed from an ideological struggle into a brutal ethno-nationalist conflict. This transformation has largely been fuelled by Afghanistan's neighbours, most importantly Pakistan, which have pursued competing policies of cross-border ...
ETHNIC conflictCONFLICT of interestsCULTURAL identityETHNIC relationsMILITARY art & scienceGOVERNMENT policyIn the former Soviet states of Central Asia, Afghanistan and its neighboring countries, and the in the Great Lakes region of Africa, conflicts have been organized around cultural identities. These ...
This article focuses on strategies of inter-ethnic conflict resolution in southwest Afghanistan under the circumstances of social changes in a tribal society. Field research was carried on in September and October 2008 in Kabul and Zaranj, the province centre of Nimruz. During ethnographic fieldwork...
environment in Liberia, owing to the long-standing cross-border relationshipsandethnic affinitiesbetween the peoples of the two countries, which had played a significant role during the Liberian civil conflict. daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org ...
Sri Lanka is a country in South Asia whose population numbers 23 million. Beginning in the 16th century, Sri Lanka was colonized by European imperial powers: first the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the British. The country finally won its independence in 1948, though conflict remained between...
Talking Past Each Other: Chinese and Western Discourses on Ethnic Conflict - Feng Yuan Ji On the afternoon of Sunday 5 July 2009 aUighur mob in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi went on the rampage, bashing and killing Han Chineseand destroying property well into the night. The police eventually...