Ethnicity and Conflict: Understanding Rohingya Issue in Myanmar
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چکیده
The terms'Ethnicity' and 'conflict' are often correlated when discussing the conflicts within any nation's boundaries. Most likely, state of Myanmar conflict with Rohingya one recent examples. This study intends to investigate how ethnic identity people manifested itself as strife in society. Two questions: Firstly, why has ethnicity become a question "belongingness"? Secondly, howis entwined politics becomes cultural threat?
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Research in Social Science and Humanities
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2582-6220']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47505/ijrss.2023.v4.7.1