Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict

Lake, David A.; Rothchild, Donald

doi:10.1162/isec.21.2.41

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“…Peninsular states where Christian growth rates approach or exceed that of Hindus are more than twice as likely to experience violence compared to states where Hindu growth rates are higher. Our results, therefore, provide support for differential growth theories advanced by Horowitz (2001), Lake and Rothchild (2001), Toft (2007) and Weiner (2001).…”

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Political competition, relative deprivation, and perceived threat: a research note on anti-Christian violence in India

Bauman¹,

Leech²

2012

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests that whereas the data provide very little support for simple, demographic explanations of this violence, they do more robustly support theories emphasizing the relative status of ethnic and religious minorities (vis-à-vis majorities) and the perception, among Hindus, that Christians (and other minorities) represent a threat to their numerical, political and economic strength.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Political competition, relative deprivation, and perceived threat: a research note on anti-Christian violence in India

Bauman¹,

Leech²

2012

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Finally, the security hypothesis states that the decision to stay away because of a fear of ethnic violence (Lake and Rothchild 1996;Walter 1999;Annan et al 2011) is likely associated with a sense of vulnerability (greater for women and families with small children), traumatic war-time experiences (such as an individual's victimization or loss of a significant other) and the presence of ethnic others in the village (such as settlers or a military forces). Unfortunately, as will be shown below, measurement difficulties constrained our ability to test the security hypothesis properly.…”

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Home is Where the Heart Is? Forced Migration and Voluntary Return in Turkey's Kurdish Regions

Stefanovic

Loizides

Parsons

2014

Journal of Refugee Studies

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“…However, Lake and Rothchild (1996) assert that the pursuit of particularistic objectives often becomes embodied in competing visions of just, legitimate, and appropriate political orders. This encompasses such demands as greater autonomy and decentralization, resource control, and restructuring of state power, fair power division and group rights (Ajayi, 2006;Ogunrotifa, 2014;Osaghae 2004).…”

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Nationalism and Nationalist Agitation in Africa: The Nigerian Trajectory

Olasupo

Oladeji

Ijeoma

2017

The Review of Black Political Economy

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The need to reclaim African territory -economically, socially, and politically -from imperialism and colonialism united Africans, especially after the Second World War, in pressing for the independence of African nations from colonialism is imperative. This period marked the emergence of Nationalism or Nationalist Movements in Africa. Nationalism presupposes African unity against European domination and rule in Africa or the creation in Africa united 'nation-states' as well as their economic and political transformation. Using the Nigerian case as analytical compass, this paper interrogates the concepts of Nationalism and Nationalist Agitations in Africa, especially during the colonial and the postcolonial periods. The paper employs historical and descriptive approaches and relies solely on secondary sources of data. The paper notes that, while all the ethnic-nationalities in Nigeria united against colonial rule and fought for its independence, sooner after independence in October 1960, the country began to divide against itself along ethno-religious-cultural cleavages. This division culminated in the Civil War fought between 1967 and 1970 and the continuous agitations by various ethnic-nationalities that make up the country either for more relevance within the larger Nigerian State or for outright abrogation of the State and creation of 'our own state'. These agitations are captured by the concept of Self Determination. The paper therefore concludes that there has been serious transformation in the meaning of Nationalism from what it used to mean under colonialism and presently under postcolonial state. The paper notes that this transformation is due in part to the colonial origin of the state itself and the insincerity of the postcolonial African leaders to make the state Rev Black Polit Econ (2017) a 'nation-state'. To reawaken the Nigerianness nay Africanness nationalism, the paper recommends a political structure, which allows each ethnic-nationality some latitude of self-rule/governance in the likes of genuine federalism. Also there is need for spirited efforts at engendering good, transparent and fair governance, which will rapidly take many Africans out of the mouldy pond of poverty. This, we hope, will not only results in development of the states, but also transfer loyalties of the critical mass of the populace away from their micro ethnic-nationalities back to the state and strengthens the state against centrifugal forces.

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Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict

Cited by 420 publications

References 7 publications

Political competition, relative deprivation, and perceived threat: a research note on anti-Christian violence in India

Political competition, relative deprivation, and perceived threat: a research note on anti-Christian violence in India

Home is Where the Heart Is? Forced Migration and Voluntary Return in Turkey's Kurdish Regions

Nationalism and Nationalist Agitation in Africa: The Nigerian Trajectory

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