POLI 227 Lecture 7: Ethnic Conflict
27 Jul 2016
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To what extent are civil conflicts based on ethnic/religious differences. Ethnicity- often employed in other ways but it is usually a collective identity based on cultural traits and shared experience. a shared history within that. Ethnicity is socially constructed- it isn"t a biological thing, it is cultivated that we developed socially so it is flewed and harder to define but not less than somebodys identity. Population w/own language, cultural traditions &historical aspirations seeking self- determination. Usually some kind of language basis to this national movement(quebec). Ethnic movements may become national movements if they push for self- determination. When those things come to a head- just having a multi ethnic society, doesn"t mean there will be conflict. If one or more sees themselves as distinct from the larger group or two ethnic groups both seeking self-determination over the same territory. May look different in contracted places/different phases of intensity. Minimal-uneasy balance(discrimination/stereotypes)-enforced hierarchies(policies creating splits between the two groups/displacements of people)-systematic violence.
