Ethnic conflicts in Lebanon

Facing Ethnic Conflicts

O the past decades, ethnonationalist conflict has become the dominant form of mass political violence. The overwhelming majority of civil wars in the postwar era were fought in the name of ethnonational autonomy or independence (Scherrer 1994:74)—as was the case during earlier waves of civil wars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as during the Balkan wars or following the dissolut...

Simulation Of Ethnic Conflicts In Former Jugoslavia

The paper describes an agent-based model of the escalation of inner-state ethnic conflicts. Model assumptions are derived from the case of the former Yugoslavia. To comprehend the appearance of war crimes, the model refers to the concept of ethnic norms. The cognitive complexity of norm emergence is represented by using the simulation tool EMIL-S. The model consists of two agent classes: politi...

Visualizing Ethnic Fractionalization, Conflicts and Power Relations

Why do ethnic conflicts arise? This question has been a persistent one in the field of political science, and has generated various theories and approaches attempting to explain conflict proliferation from different angles. Consulting current political science literature and Prof James Fearon, an expert on ethnic conflicts, we identify two main approaches to understanding the problem: one has e...

Containing ethnic conflicts through ethical voting? Evidence from Ethiopia

In an ethnically polarized country, does aversion towards inter-ethnic inequity induce citizens to vote for a party promoting an equitable allocation of national resources among ethnic groups? We base our analysis on a survey that we conducted among 331 students from Addis Ababa University. We show that aversion towards inter-ethnic inequity does exert a significant influence on university stud...

Rwandan Ethnic Conflicts a Historical Look at Root Causes