ABSTRACT
Ethnopolitical conflicts are a leading cause of violence, suffering, and instability around the world. The end of the Cold War failed to produce stability and peace. Some interstate conflicts abated, but intrastate conflicts escalated sharply, both in number and deadliness. Many of the world’s most intractable conflicts involve age-old cycles of oppression, victimization, and revenge. Violence, war, and “ethnic cleansing” are among the most dramatic manifestations of this cycle. From Sri Lanka to Cyprus, from Nigeria to Northern Ireland, and from Rwanda to Kashmir, the recurrent, intractable nature of ethnopolitical conflicts is evident in the cases discussed in this book.
