Ethnic conflict and civic engagement

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It is sometimes puzzling that despite ethnic diversity, some places (villages, towns or cities) manage to remain peaceful, whereas others experience violence. This paper explains how the characteristics of civic engagement in a particular place influence the occurrence of conflict there. The paper shows that a place characterised by higher intra-ethnic civic engagement has greater chances of ethnic conflict compared to a place where there is more inter-ethnic engagement. Moreover, a richer economy is less prone to conflict compared to a poorer economy, while absolute poverty also plays an important role in precipitating conflict.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publisher

NASM

Keywords

Civic engagement, Ethnic civic engagement, Ethnic engagement

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https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=NASM2013&paper_id=235

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