GOVT2117 Lecture 8: GOVT 1107 - Week 8 - Key Terms(1)
17 Jan 2019
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Many examples of ethnic conflict (e. g. , rohingya in myanmar, sunnis vs. Yet such cases are the exception, not the rule. Relative to level of ethnic diversity (and thus potential for conflict), ethnic conflict is a relatively rare outcome. Bottom-up and structuralist view co-ethnics as extended family; attack on one = attack on all. Ancient hatreds - may lie dormant, but also near the surface waiting for spark. Ethnic entrepreneurs scapegoat ethnic others for instrumental reasons, i. e. , to build/hold onto support. Especially political outsiders or established politicians under threat. Example: slobodan milosevic in serbia (gagnon reading) ethnicity is socially constructed ethnic entrepreneurs: deliberately foster ethnic hatred. Ethnic grievance: one group has to feel that it has suffered at the hands of the other groups. What generates this kind of fear: kill or be killed. )- usually found in war time (rwanda) or in great political change.
