How Enemies Are Made : : Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict / / Günther Schlee.
In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory. The author develops a decision theory which explains the condition...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Integration and Conflict Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Chapter 1 Why We Need a New Conflict Theory
- Chapter 2 The Question
- Chapter 3 How This Volume is Organised
- Part II Theoretical Frame
- Chapter 4 A Decision Theory of Identification
- Chapter 5 The Necessity for Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion
- Chapter 6 The Conceptual Instruments of Exclusion and Inclusion: Social Categories and Their Overlapping Relations
- Chapter 7 Economics as Sociology – Sociology as Economics
- Chapter 8 Markets of Violence and the Freedom of Choice
- Chapter 9 Ethnic Emblems, Diacritical Features, Identity Markers – Some East African Examples
- Chapter 10 Purity and Power in Islamic and Non-Islamic Societies and the Spectre of Fundamentalism
- Chapter 11 Language and Ethnicity
- Part III Practical Frame
- Chapter 12 Conflict Resolution: the Experience with the Somali Peace Process
- Chapter 13 On Methods: How to be a Conflict Analyst
- Chapter 14 An Update from 2007: Reconsidering the Peace Process
- References
- Index