Escaping the symbolic politics trap: Reconciliation initiatives and conflict resolution in ethnic wars
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Resolving ethnic war requires reconciliation by changing hostile attitudes to more moderate ones, assuaging ethnic fears, and replacing the intragroup symbolic politics of ethnic chauvinism with a politics that rewards moderation. The only policy tool for promoting such attitudinal and social changes are reconciliation initiatives such as leaders' acknowledgement of their sides' misdeeds, public education efforts such as media campaigns, and problem-solving workshops.
Publication Name: Journal of Peace Research
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0022-3433
Year: 2006
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Structure, politics, and ethnonationalist contention in post-Franco Spain: an integrated model
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It was posited that group cohesion, grievances, and economic structural conditions were vitally important to the development of ethnonationalist contentious politics, but indirectly via mobilization. The results substantiate the brief that violent and nonviolent could be theoretically and empirically linked by an all-inclusive framework of 'contentious politics'.
Publication Name: Journal of Peace Research
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0022-3433
Year: 2004
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Nation-Building and integration policy in the Philippines
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An overview of the national integration policy and modernism in post-independent Philippines is presented.
Publication Name: Journal of Peace Research
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0022-3433
Year: 2007
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