1st Edition

Conflict and Peace Building in Divided Societies Responses to Ethnic Violence

By Anthony Oberschall Copyright 2007
272 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This groundbreaking book provides an integrated account of ethnic, nationality and sectarian conflicts in the contemporary world including the role of collective myths, the mass media and the ethnification of identities as contributors to ethnic conflicts and wars. In addition to many examples from the last two decades, Oberschall provides a comprehensive overview of the conflict and peace... Read more

1. The Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict  2. Insurgency, Terrorism, Human Rights, and the Laws of War  3. Peace Intervention  4. War and Peace in Bosnia  5. The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process  6. The Peace Process in Northern Ireland  7. Peace Building

Biography

Anthony Oberschall was educated at Harvard and earned a PhD in sociology at Columbia in 1962. He has taught at UCLA, Yale and since 1980 at the University of North Carolina, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a New Century Scholar in the Fulbright program. He has taught and researched in East and Central Africa, the People's Republic of China, and Germany, France and Hungary, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland. Among his books are Social Conflict and Social Movements (1973) and Social Movements: Ideologies, Interests, and Identities (1993). Since the late 1980s, he has studied, lectured and written on conflict and conflict management in divided societies.