The root causes of most violent conflicts lie in economic and political factors, often horizontal inequalities of various types. Yet people are organised, united and mobilised by identities, in particular ethnic or religious ones. Most conflict analyses treat religion as a subset of ethnicity. This paper explores differences between these two identities, both by reviewing literature and by anal...

Building on Posner (Posner, Daniel N. 2005. Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press), this article describes a framework for organizing the information about a community’s social cleavage structure so as to identify the incentives that individuals face to adopt particular social identities. The framework is parsimonious but powerful: it generates predict...

The paper analyzes the normative-formative framework that denotes connection between memory and identity as a crucial origin of conflicts. In addition to concerns about politics, historical revisionism ethnonational collectivism, dissolves phenomena highlighting outcomes peace process, transitional justice, its ethical/moral connotations. study argues Western Balkan’s sociopolitical stability d...

The emphasis on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare has received national attention, with various policy initiatives addressing this problem and proposing solutions. However, in the current economic era requiring tight monetary constraints, emphasis is increasingly being placed on economic efficiency, which often conflicts with the equality doctrine upon which many policies ...

The fighting in some civil wars primarily takes place in a few stable locations, while the fighting in others moves substantially. We posit that rebel groups that do not primarily fight for a specific ethnic group, that receive outside military assistance, or that have relatively weak fighting capacity tend to fight in inconsistent locations. We develop new measures of conflict zone movement to...

The author defines ethnicity as a community which enables a reproduction of culture. i.e. a system of moral regulation within communities. Cultural identity of a community is a means by which it affirms its moral value vis-à-vis others. The elements of culture (language, religion, customs, historical legacy) serve to an ethnic community for defining borders towards other communities. Nationalis...

The article examines the dynamics and prospects of settlement main conflicts in Western Balkans region. Three decades after breakup Yugoslavia, situation Bosnia Herzegovina remains explosive, Albanian question has not yet been resolved. most important factors influencing conflict region are ethnic homogenization external interference. intervention West allowed to stop military actions, but at s...

The target of research is discussing the terrorism and its manifestation in some countries Asia-Pacific region. authors used following methods: systemic, complex, historical, logical-legal, statistical, etc. main conclusions study are: 1. after end cold war, problems ethnicity, religion separatism emerged again. 2. restructuring power institutions on a global scale, as well expansion internatio...