ABSTRACT

Ihave argued that in some intense communal conflicts a stable end to thekilling can only be attained by separating the warring populations intodefensible territories; that in such cases efforts to keep warring ethnic communities together in mixed settlements, or to put them back together after they have become separated in the course of the war, are misguided and actually dangerous; and that in such circumstances demands for very loose regional autonomy or even for partition of sovereignty should not be resisted.1