Ethnicity
Latest Documents
- How can Nepal tackle the scourge of armed violence?
- Nepal Armed Violence Reduction Working Group, 2012
- Awareness of armed violence in Nepal is limited. Recent data indicates that armed violence has increased across the country after the peace agreement was signed between the Nepalese government and the leaders of the Maoist insurgency ...
- Considering religious and ethnic identities in conflict
- F. Stewart (ed) / Microcon, 2009
- The root causes of most violent conflicts lie in economic and political factors and inequalities of various types but usually, people are mobilised by ethnic or religious identities. This paper explores the differences and similaritie...
- What are the impacts of disarmament on nomadic livelihoods?
- E. Stites; D. Akabwai / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
- This report examines the role of disarmament policies in changes in livelihood systems of the population in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda. The following topics are covered: Disarmament and human righ...
- A fragile peace: Burma and armed ethnic groups
- J. Lorch; G. Will / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/ German Institute for International and Security Affairs, 2009
- This paper states that the focus of the public on the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi is obscuring the tension that is brewing between the central government in the heartland inhabited by the Burman ethnic majority and the armed organizatio...
- The Rwandan genocide: socio-economic distribution of excess mortality
- D. de Walque; P. Verwimp / Households in Conflict Network, 2009
- This paper studies the long-term demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide (1994) and, in particular, it analyzes how excess mortality was distributed in the population. It also gives a short historical background which details...
- Rapid response study on citizenship, violence and xenophobia in South Africa
- Democracy and Governance Programme Human Sciences Research Council / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2008
- More than 50 people died and tens of thousands of people were displaced as a result of ‘xenophobic’ violence in South Africa during 2008. A number of urgent questions resulted from these attacks: Why are foreign African mi...
- Lessons to be learnt from post-colonialism in Africa
- M. Mamdani / International Development Centre, Open University, 2007
- This paper argues for the importance of understanding the political legacy of colonialism. Its author contends that colonialism in Africa left a legacy of dual citizenship - the civil and the customary - which reflected not different ...
- The role of ethnicity in civil war
- S.N. Kalyvas / Department of Political Science, Yale University, 2007
- The study of civil war has often neglected the role of ethnicity and its construction. This paper examines the relationship between ethnic identity and civil war and points to several empirical instances of variability in the beh...
- Could the destruction of the White Army bring a new wave of violence to Sudan?
- J. Young / Small Arms Survey, 2007
- This document reports on the conflict in southern Sudan. It particularly focuses on the origins, organisation, leadership and capacity of local armed groups of the Nilotic people. Throughout southern Sudan local armed group...
- The human rights situation in Darfur: background and recommendations
- Human Rights Watch, 2007
- This report provides a background on the Darfur conflict and the state of human rights in the region. The report argues that while the Darfur conflict is often characterised as an ethnic conflict between “Arab” and “...
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