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  title info:
    title: Handbook of Ethnic Conflict
    sub title: International Perspectives
  name:
    name part: Landis, Dan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Albert, Rosita D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXIX, 647 p. 63 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Ethnic conflicts are world-wide phenomena producing discrimination, violence, and at times, unspeakable atrocities. Two thirds of international conflicts today are ethnopolitical conflicts. Some are long-entrenched disputes dating back centuries. Others are the by-products of recent trends in immigration or politics. The Handbook of Ethnic Conflict examines the social, psychological, historical and political underpinnings of these conflicts—particularly the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national identities that feed ingroup/outgroup antagonistic perceptions and fuel cycles of aggression. It covers leading theories and models of interethnic conflict and provides in-depth analyses of twenty conflicts as diverse as those in Croatia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Israel, and New Zealand. It examines phenomena that have not received the attention they deserve, such as the obstacles presented by differing accounts of the origins and dynamics of given conflict. In each case, and in the book’s concluding chapter, contributors suggest creative responses to ethnic friction utilizing innovative intercultural approaches, conflict management approaches, and peace-building strategies. Major features: · Worldwide coverage: includes conflicts in Southeast Asia, China, the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Western Europe, and the Balkans. · Extensive analyses of the dynamics of interethnic hostility as well as of the relevant current and historical social, psychological, political and economic conditions. · Contributors from a variety of cultures and disciplines. · Comparisons across diverse conflicts in the concluding chapter. · Suggestions for diminishing prejudice and discrimination, and improving inter-ethnic relations in multi-ethnic states · Policy recommendations for reducing ethnic conflict. Its unique presentation and wide range of information make the Handbook of Ethnic Conflict an effective reference for professionals, researchers, an…
  table of contents: Preface -- Theoretical Approaches in the Study of Ethno/Cultural Conflict -- Franco/Anglo Conflict in Canada -- Mexico's Ethnic Conflict -- Ethnic Conflict in Spain -- Ethnic Conflict in Ireland -- Muslims in the Netherlands -- Conflict in South Africa -- Confict in the South of Sudan -- Ideology of Small Differences: Dissolution and Fail of the Former Yugoslavia -- Crimea: Violence Avoided (A Study in Conflict Prevention) -- Peacebuilding and Possibilities for Resolution in the Cyprus Conflict -- Armenians in Turkey -- Israel: The Homeland of Jews, Arabs, and Palestinians -- The Palestinians in Israel: Ethnic-national Identity Conflict -- Interobjectivity and Conflict within Islam -- Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in India -- Interethnic Conflict in Malaysia -- Ethnopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka -- Ethnic Conflict in China -- Social Psychology of Peace and Conflict in Mindanao -- Ethnic Conflict in Australia -- Ethnic Relations in New Zealand: Culture, Conflict, and Cohesion -- Ethnocultural Conflict and Cooperation in Hawaii -- Lessons Learned: What We Know and What We Don't Know.
  note: edited by Dan Landis, Rosita D. Albert.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Clinical psychology
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Community psychology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cross-cultural psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cross Cultural Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Community and Environmental Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Clinical Psychology
  classification: BF1-990
  classification: 155.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: International and Cultural Psychology
  identifier: 9781461404484
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0448-4
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    record change date: 20151120165918.0
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