Ethnic Conflict and Civil Wars

Catalog description

Ethnic Conflict and Civil Wars This course examines theories about the sources of ethnic conflicts and civil wars, along with key strategies that are employed to contain such conflicts. Coverage includes the concepts of ethnic and national identity, different regime types, policies that structure intergroup relations, causes of ethnic conflict and civil violence, and the ineffectiveness of certain domestic/ international arrangements in suppressing intergroup tensions or the evaluation of the evaluation of the costs and benefits associated with different conflict management strategies for facilitating the peaceful resolution of such conflicts.