ABSTRACT
The analysis of the three main theoretical junctures on the path to conflict has revealed, the real path to conflict bounces between changes in identities and agency, and motives of and opportunities for violence. Developments on the opportunity-side give rise to new identities, which again affect motives, then again identities, and these identitive changes might again create new opportunities. This means that in order to summarize the entire path to conflict we need to move from the examination of the three theoretical junctures in the path to conflict separately, into more detailed chronological presentation of junctures on the path to conflicts in West Kalimantan. Since the rules were only shared between the Dayaks and the Malays, and not the Madurese, who were in most conflict areas the third biggest ethnic group, a Madurese frustration of the local dominant rules followed and this led to the criminal mobilization of the Madurese underground.
