Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives (International and Cultural Psychology) [Hardcover]
Author: Dan Landis Rosita D. Albert | Language: English | ISBN: 1461404479 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Although group conflict is hardly new, the last decade has seen a proliferation of conflicts engaging intrastate ethnic groups. It is estimated that two-thirds of violent conflicts being fought each year in every part of the globe including North America are ethnic conflicts. Unlike traditional warfare, civilians comprise more than 80 percent of the casualties, and the economic and psychological impact on survivors is often so devastating that some experts believe that ethnic conflict is the most destabilizing force in the post-Cold War world. Although these conflicts also have political, economic, and other causes, the purpose of this volume is to develop a psychological understanding of ethnic warfare. More specifically, Handbook of Ethnopolitical Conflict explores the function of ethnic, religious, and national identities in intergroup conflict. In addition, it features recommendations for policy makers with the intention to reduce or ameliorate the occurrences and consequences of these conflicts worldwide.
- Series: International and Cultural Psychology
- Hardcover: 647 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 2012 edition (February 14, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1461404479
- ISBN-13: 978-1461404477
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 6.9 x 9.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,749,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Not a handbook, but a library, and, an essential collection of over twenty studies providing the history and dynamics of ethnic conflicts in eight arenas around the world, along with documenting the theories of conflict resolution and their efficacy. For interculturalists, this is both overwhelming and challenging.
The Introduction, written by the authors, is extremely valuable for reading and understanding of the rest, an overview of "Models and Theories of Ethnic Conflict." First it would seem that equal status contact in positive controlled environments would be a preferable strategy for reconciling individuals in conflicted, particularly minority-majority situations. But while individual connection may benefit, systems of distinctions backed by political dynamics reinforce distinction and conflict. Thus civil wars and partitions are often inevitable "solutions."
Acculturation is unfortunately a very long term and not an inevitable outcome. Globalization seems to produce ambivalent outcomes as well, pointing to the fact that the variables are not adequately understood or not researched. Hence, the importance of the some twenty individual studies in this volume. They are organized along geographical lines, to some degree sharing ethnic origins, rather than other classifications of theory, origins, etc. Perhaps, as the authors raise the question, ethnic conflict could be inevitable, but in any case research and exploration may diminish its costs.
Part One addresses the Pacific Rim, Hawai'i, New Zealand and the Philippines.
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