Identifying Potential Ethnic Conflict
Application of a Process Model
Intrastate communitarian strife, often dubbed ethnic conflict, has gained much attention in the aftermath of the Cold War. Certainly, intrastate conflict has been by far the dominant form of strife in the world in the 1990s. This report outlines a model for anticipating the occurrence of communitarian and ethnic conflict. The model is not a mechanistic tool, but a process-based heuristic device with a threefold purpose: (1) to orderthe analyst's thinking about the logic and dynamics of potential ethnically based violence and to aid in defining the information-collection requirements of such an analysis; (2) to provide a general conceptual framework about how ethnic grievances form and group mobilization occurs and how these could lead to violence under certain conditions; and (3) to assist the intelligence community with the long-range assessment of possible ethnic strife. The theoretical model explains how the potential for strife should be understood; how the potential for strife is transformed, through mobilization, into a likelihood of strife; and how extant state capacities interact through a process of strategic bargaining withmobilized groups to produce, under certain conditions, varying degrees of strife. Use of the model is demonstrated through its application to four case studies, two retrospective (Yugoslavia and South Africa) and two prospective (Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia).
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- Year: 2000
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Contents
Preface PDF
Figures PDF
Tables PDF
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments PDF
Chapter One
Introduction PDF
Chapter Two
The Process Model for Anticipating Ethnic Conflict PDF
Chapter Three
The Yugoslav Retrospective Case PDF
Annex: Demographic Characteristics of Yugoslavia in the Late 1980s PDF
Chapter Four
The South African Retrospective Case PDF
Annex: Demographic Characteristics of South Africa in the Late 1980s PDF
Chapter Five
The Ethiopian Prospective Case PDF
Annex: Demographic Characteristics of Ethiopia in 1997-1998 PDF
Chapter Six
The Saudi Arabian Prospective Case PDF
Annex: Demographic Characteristics of Saudi Arabia in 1997-1998 PDF
Chapter Seven
Final Observations PDF
Appendix PDF
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