PACS 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Social Capital, Cultural Genocide, Essentialism
30 Mar 2017
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Pacs 10 gender, conflict, and social capital korac. In the former yugoslavia, social networking, through the deployment of social capital, ended up creating space initially for ethnic hatred and division, but later created space for peacemaking. Of the world"s states were at war during the 1990s. These were called new wars because they were shaped by globalization (structural changes on the world economy and politics by the emergence of the. By spreading fear and hatred among populations at a communal level, political elites and local warlords mobilize them for support of, and engagement in, violent conflict, and effectively use ethnicity as a tool of war. If undermining trust and social support is central to the development and spreading of new wars, developing new basis of trust is critical for building conflict resolution and sustainable peace. The politics of identity point to the bottom-up process through which local people contest structures of power that constrain their social lives.
