An authoritative guide to the complexities of ethnic conflict in terms of linguistics
territory and ethnicity in various regions The Politics of Ethnicity and National Identity
argues that ethnicity used as a tool both for oppression and for liberation plays an
influential and controversial role in constructive state-building. The contributors to this
volume use various research methodologies to affirm that positive territorial identities often
emerge from community-based organizations and groups. As an alternative to the derivative
nationalist project that so far has only resulted in conditions for a soft state this book
examines the issue of whether ethnicity and community attachments are at the heart of civil
conflict and war.
