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Ethnic Conflict: An Organizational Perspective, Victor Asal, Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Ethnic Conflict: An Organizational Perspective, Victor Asal, Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs
To talk about the behavior of others is to generalize especially if that behavior is perceived to be negative. As researchers who have studied ethnic discrimination and ethnic conflict for close to two decades, we have noticed, anecdotally at least, that this penchant for generalization is rampant in discussions of ethnic politics. Journalists and academics tend to talk about one or another ethnic group’s involvement in violence without specifying a political organizational agent. This kind of generalization is a serious obstacle to understanding conflicts and identifying solutions because it prevents policymakers and academics from getting at the messy reality of …