Conflicts are everyday situations and experiences with which people have to cope. Focusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributions to this book analyze the dynamics of conflicts from the perspectives of the actors involved, and pay particular attention to aspects like mobilization, exclusion, segregation, the role of institutions and the construction of antagonistic identities. The book gathers case studies based on long-term fieldwork from conflicts in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.

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Martin Sökefeld is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany). His research focuses on the anthropology of politics, especially in Northern Pakistan.