How enemies are made : towards a theory of ethnic and religious conflicts

Schlee, Günther. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1845454944 (cloth)
ISBN: 9781845454944 (cloth)
Physical Description: print
x, 194 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Why We Need a New Conflict Theory -- 2. The Question -- 3. How This Volume is Organised -- Pt. II. Theoretical Frame -- 4. A Decision Theory of Identification -- 5. The Necessity for Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion -- 6. The Conceptual Instruments of Exclusion and Inclusion: Social Categories and Their Overlapping Relations -- 7. Economics as Sociology - Sociology as Economics -- 8. Markets of Violence and the Freedom of Choice -- 9. Ethnic Emblems, Diacritical Features, Identity Markers - Some East African Examples -- 10. Purity and Power in Islamic and Non-Islamic Societies and the Spectre of Fundamentalism -- 11. Language and Ethnicity -- Pt. III. Practical Frame -- 12. Conflict Resolution: the Experience with the Somali Peace Process -- 13. On Methods: How to be a Conflict Analyst -- 14. An Update from 2007: Reconsidering the Peace Process.