PSC 116G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnic Cleansing, Braising, Thought Experiment
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____ are internal conflicts in which there are no frontlines". Militarized conflict between 2+ groups organized along ethnic divisions. Shared culture, history, and language common identity. Conventional wisdom: ethnic conflict is primarily caused by primordial hatred. Deeply flawed with almost no support in the empirical data. Thought experiment: 100"s of the neighboring hostile ethnic groups that live peacefully in the world. Many ethnic groups associated with the worst civil conflicts were recent inventions by elites (yugoslavia, rwanda) In ethnic conflicts, there is often pressure to redraw borders by force. When ethnic populations are minorities in territories controlled by rival ethnic groups, they may be driven from their land (ethnic cleansing) or systematically exterminated (genocide) Historical conflict over specific territories or natural resources. One group"s economic exploitation or political domination over another. When countries experience repeated civil conflicts over time it is known as a conflict trap.
