TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife. An Interdisciplinary Perspective
AU - Kanbur, Ravi
AU - Rajaram, Prem Kumar
AU - Varshney, Ashutosh
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - The objective of this paper is to present an overview of ethnicity, ethnic strife, and its consequences, as seen from the perspective of the disciplines of economics, political science, social anthropology, and sociology. What exactly is ethnicity-how is it to be defined, characterized, and measured? What exactly are the causal links from ethnicity so defined to its presumed consequences, including tension and violence? What are the feedback loops from the consequences of ethnic divisions back to these divisions themselves? How can policy, if at all, mitigate ethnic divisions and ethnic conflict? Finally, what role does interdisciplinarity have in helping to understand ethnicity and ethnic strife, and how can interdisciplinary collaboration be enhanced? These are the questions which this paper takes up and deals with in sequence.
AB - The objective of this paper is to present an overview of ethnicity, ethnic strife, and its consequences, as seen from the perspective of the disciplines of economics, political science, social anthropology, and sociology. What exactly is ethnicity-how is it to be defined, characterized, and measured? What exactly are the causal links from ethnicity so defined to its presumed consequences, including tension and violence? What are the feedback loops from the consequences of ethnic divisions back to these divisions themselves? How can policy, if at all, mitigate ethnic divisions and ethnic conflict? Finally, what role does interdisciplinarity have in helping to understand ethnicity and ethnic strife, and how can interdisciplinary collaboration be enhanced? These are the questions which this paper takes up and deals with in sequence.
KW - Conflict
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Interdisciplinary approaches
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650547852&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.034
DO - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.034
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78650547852
SN - 0305-750X
VL - 39
SP - 147
EP - 158
JO - World Development
JF - World Development
IS - 2
ER -