2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Introduction
verfasst von : Ademola Adediji
Erschienen in: The Politicization of Ethnicity as Source of Conflict
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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Conflicts have always been an integral part of the history of mankind. However, in the period from the onset of the 1990s up until the early 21st century, the paradigm shifted from a Cold War mindset of conflict between (blocs of) nations to intra-national and inter-ethnic conflict becoming the dominant mode of conflict. This development has given a new impetus to academic discourse as conflicts among ethnic groups within nations increasingly came to play a central role in world politics, thereby dominating the international scene.