Course Description
There is barely any region in this world that is home to only one ethnic group. In other words, each ethnic group needs to share with (an)other ethnic groups some territories, resources, citizenship, government, etc. Although media coverage may suggest the opposite, some research showed that interethnic cooperation is more frequent than interethnic violence. How do we explain this variation? What are the roots of interethnic cooperation and interethnic violence? What are the ways to manage a multiethnic society?
Ethnic Conflict (EC) 2024 engages you with those important questions and directs your attention to temporal and spatial variations. EC is a laborious course, meaning that it gives a lot of reading, written and group assignments. No plagiarism, no free-riding, and no tardiness accepted. Students who plagiarises gets an automatic E. Throughout the first half of the semester, you will delve into basic concepts of ethnicity and the 4 approaches commonly used in analysing them: primordialism, instrumentalism, constructivism, and institusionalism. In the second half of the semester, you will be looking at theories regarding ethnonationalism and ethnic peacebuilding. The class will use Google Class Drive and Zoom for class administration and online sessions respectively.
Expected Learning Outcome
- Explain the roots of interethnic cooperation and violence using relevant approaches and theories.
- Analyze cases of ethnic conflict.
- Compare and select recipes for managing interethnic relations.
Syllabus
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