Theory and Practice in Ethnic Conflict Management

MIEK BOLTJES Conflict Manager Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts JACO CILLIERS Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University TAMRA PEARSON D'ESTREE Department of Psychology, University of Arizona JOSEPH FOLGER Department of Sociology, Temple University DAVID GORMAN JANIE LEATHERMAN University of Illinois at Normal KARIN LUCKE independent researcher, Geneva CHRIS MITCHELL Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University MELTEM MUFTULER Department of Political Science, Bilkent University ROBERT MULVIHILL Department of Political Science, Rosemont College

Collection of case studies on interventions in ethnic conflicts in which the nature of the state is a core concern, asking how the projects themselves understand success and failure in resolution and emphasising the paradigm shift when intervenors and participants redefine the identities and interest at stakeThroughout the world there are efforts both large and small to address ethnic conflicts-identity based disputes between groups who are unable to live side-by-side in the same state. This book brings together a collection of case studies on interventions in ethnic conflicts throughout the world in which the nature of the state is a core concern (Turkey, Russia, Macedonia, Guatemala, Israel, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, South Africa, US) and asks how the projects themselves understand success and failure in ethnic conflict resolution. It emphasises the complexity and importance of better understanding ways in which small-scale interventions can sometimes have a large impact on large-scale ethnic conflict, and how the goals of the intervenors shift as the participants redefine the identities and interest at stake.