Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Ethnicity & Conflict
Course Number:
POL00024H
Course Description:
Many contemporary conflicts are characterised in the media as 'ethnic conflicts'. Yet it is not clear that ethnic hatred actually caused these conflicts. So what is the relationship between ethnicity and conflict? This module explores this issue through both a critical discussion of ethnicity and its relation to nation-states, and the study of recent conflicts such as those in Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland. The main focus of the module is on the ways that ethnic identities are politicised and transformed during political mobilisation, violent conflicts and peace processes. This raises practical issues of how ethnicity can best be managed in postconflict situations, and whether reconciliation can be achieved, and politics de-ethnicized after a conflict. Along the way we examine processes of creating ethnic boundaries, the politicisation of ethnicity, and the importance of territory, landscape and place in contemporary ethnic mobilisation and conflict.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GOVT 444, GOVT 398
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/POL00024H/latest
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