Identity Conflicts

-This timely volume starts with the premise that identity conflict isn't new, but it also isn't unmanageable. Drawing from numerous cases of conflicts based on ethnicity, religion, and history, the book shows how insurgents can find reasons to direct their efforts to state and nation-building. Offering both academic and practical contributions, and never glossing over the real difficulties, Identity Conflicts tackles the essential issues for building peace. This is an important book.-

--David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine

-This is an important book, bringing together excellent analyses of diverse conflicts associated with exclusive identities. The analyses vividly reveal the multiplicity and fluidity of identities. The conflicts are examined in global, regional, and local settings and from various perspectives. Yet, the cases are so presented that the findings mesh together to demonstrate how cultural and institutional regulation sometimes fail to avert violence, but also how they often succeed. This exciting book, with its sophisticated treatment of a subject often treated too simplistically, should be widely read.-

--Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University

-The volume consists of a dozen case studies from around the world on the theme of managing identity conflicts. The editors and contributors examine the formation and suppression of group identities, and the creation of new, overarching identities...a contribution to the burgeoning literature on identity conflicts.-

--Tony Oberschall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

-Each essay is rich in the detail about the complexity of the issue being presented. . . . [This] is an interesting, informative and useful book.-

--Harris Chaiklin, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

"This timely volume starts with the premise that identity conflict isn't new, but it also isn't unmanageable. Drawing from numerous cases of conflicts based on ethnicity, religion, and history, the book shows how insurgents can find reasons to direct their efforts to state and nation-building. Offering both academic and practical contributions, and never glossing over the real difficulties, Identity Conflicts tackles the essential issues for building peace. This is an important book."

--David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine

"This is an important book, bringing together excellent analyses of diverse conflicts associated with exclusive identities. The analyses vividly reveal the multiplicity and fluidity of identities. The conflicts are examined in global, regional, and local settings and from various perspectives. Yet, the cases are so presented that the findings mesh together to demonstrate how cultural and institutional regulation sometimes fail to avert violence, but also how they often succeed. This exciting book, with its sophisticated treatment of a subject often treated too simplistically, should be widely read."

--Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University

"The volume consists of a dozen case studies from around the world on the theme of managing identity conflicts. The editors and contributors examine the formation and suppression of group identities, and the creation of new, overarching identities...a contribution to the burgeoning literature on identity conflicts."

--Tony Oberschall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Each essay is rich in the detail about the complexity of the issue being presented. . . . [This] is an interesting, informative and useful book."

--Harris Chaiklin, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

"This timely volume starts with the premise that identity conflict isn't new, but it also isn't unmanageable. Drawing from numerous cases of conflicts based on ethnicity, religion, and history, the book shows how insurgents can find reasons to direct their efforts to state and nation-building. Offering both academic and practical contributions, and never glossing over the real difficulties, Identity Conflicts tackles the essential issues for building peace. This is an important book."

--David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine

"This is an important book, bringing together excellent analyses of diverse conflicts associated with exclusive identities. The analyses vividly reveal the multiplicity and fluidity of identities. The conflicts are examined in global, regional, and local settings and from various perspectives. Yet, the cases are so presented that the findings mesh together to demonstrate how cultural and institutional regulation sometimes fail to avert violence, but also how they often succeed. This exciting book, with its sophisticated treatment of a subject often treated too simplistically, should be widely read."

--Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University

"The volume consists of a dozen case studies from around the world on the theme of managing identity conflicts. The editors and contributors examine the formation and suppression of group identities, and the creation of new, overarching identities...a contribution to the burgeoning literature on identity conflicts."

--Tony Oberschall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Each essay is rich in the detail about the complexity of the issue being presented. . . . [This] is an interesting, informative and useful book."

--Harris Chaiklin, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease