Ethnicity Kills?

The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle which evolved around the state is at the forefront of the analysis of civil war and societal conflict.

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EINAR BRAATHEN works for the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR). He was Research Fellow (Research Council of Norway) at the University of Bergen..

MORTEN BOÅS is Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.

GJERMUND SAETHER is a political scientist and former University Lecturer at the Eurofaculty, University of Tartu. He joined the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic trainee and is currently posted in Vienna.

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List of Tables, Figures and Maps Preface Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Ethnicity Kills? Social Struggles for Power, Resources and Identities in the Neopatrimonial State; E.Braathen, M.Boås & G.Saether The Politics of War: A Meditation; V.Y.Mudimbe PART 2: ETHNICITY AND CIVIL WAR The Somali Catastrophe: Explanation and Implications; A.I.Samatar Causes of Civil War in Rwanda: The Weight of History and Socio-Cultural Structures ; A.Lema The Struggle for Kingship: Moses or Messiah - Ethnic War and the Use of Ethnicity in the Process of Democratisation in Congo-Brazzaville; A.Sundberg The Political Economy of State Collapse in Somalia and Liberia; G.Saether PART 3: TRANSITIONS FROM WAR TO PEACE? Nigeria and West Africa: from a Regional Security Complex to a Regional Security Community?; M.Boås Nationalism and Ethnicities: Lessons from Mozambique; M.Cahen Conclusion - Transcending the Discourse on the Politics of War; E.Braathen, M.Boås & G.Saether Bibliography Index