In the given debate topic of ’Is ethnic conflict inevitable?’ both authors have explained their perspectives with an example of historical events in particular society. I would like to explain the summary of both the sides and then I would express my point of view as under. Sudhir Kakar – a social researcher in India has taken the psychological perspective to explain the inevitable causes of ethnic conflicts. Taking Indian community as a whole‚ he differentiates the understanding of everybody
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get rid of many different groups‚ such as‚ the Crusades‚ the Muslims‚ and the Holocaust. Up until the 1990’s the phrase Ethnic Cleansing had not been used by historians. It first became an accepted phrase in 1992‚ when there was an incident in Yugoslavia. After Bosnia declared it’s independent status‚ they tried to get rid of all the Bosnian Muslims and Croatian by killing‚ torturing‚ and sending them out of the country forcibly. “In his 1993 article "A Brief History of Ethnic Cleansing‚" published
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How we Survived Communism and Even Laughed Slavenka Drakulić’s How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed is an interesting and educational book about the struggles and dysfunction of communism in Croatia. I found this book incredibly personal because it showed the point of view of a woman who is experiencing life growing up in a country where communism had ended‚ but continued in the minds of it’s people. Not only does she speak of the lack of common luxuries that Croatia has‚ but she relates
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calls for a referendum that would allow the citizens to decide b. 1997‚ yes c. Kasmirians‚ Jammuians‚ Pakistani‚ Indians d. over 50‚000 people e. yes‚ neighboring countries have stepped in during to find a solution Slovenia: a. the breakup of yugoslavia dividing into several independent countries and efforts to protect‚ retrieve or even utilize the small minority of Slovenian Serbs as a means of organizational leverage b. through 1992‚ no c. Serbs‚ Slovenians‚ Croatians‚ Bosnians‚ Herzegovians
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Anarchy versus Law “Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive- Eliphas Levi”. This quote portrays to the reader the ongoing struggle between anarchy and law. Through history societies have fallen into disorder as corrupt leaders lose interest in maintaining the stability that order brings. This problem does not change even in novels such as William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Yi Munyol’s Our Twisted Hero where order loses hold quickly
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Kosovo had a historical significance to the Serbs. They were a minority in Kosovo and they felt discriminated against largely for economic reasons. Tito made Vojvodani and Kosovo autonomous regions‚ he gave them veto power and representatives in the Federal presidency. In 1988 Milosevic was sent to Kosovo to hear out the complaints of the Serbs. To everyone’s surprise he didn’t stick to the communist party anti-nationalist line‚ instead he took side with the nationalists. Milosevic placed leaders in
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FEDERAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT VS REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT There are many different forms of government that exists in the world and one of those is Federal form of government. Federal states are political body described by combination of partially self-governing states or provinces united by a central (federal) government. Federal form of government is a form of government in which sovereign power is formally divided usually by means of a constitution between a central authority and a number
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Partisan war movies played an important role in the process of forming of People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Many believed they were just portraying partisan’s war victories‚ which is true in some way‚ but beneath the surface‚ there is much more to it. Josip Broz Tito‚ Yugoslav’s supreme commander and president‚ was in need of a national myth which would glue his nation together and war movies were the best in the business to do so. National myth was “unity and brotherhood”‚ phrase which could
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of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) that had dominated international world affairs crumbled into a morass of disarray and was dissolved. From the ashes of the old republic‚ the new Russian Federation was formed the very next day on 26 December 1991establishing a sovereign state. After the dissolution of the USSR‚ the mantle of leadership was passed to the Russian Federation’s first president‚ Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin announced that he would transform Russia’s old and repressive socialist economy into
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for conflicts in the post cold war era. Yugoslavia‚ a prime example of a system that encountered ethnic conflict that led to a violent civil war‚ consisted of six republics and two autonomous districts. The government at the time wanted control of these republics but the republics wanted to be free from government control. There was a push by several ethnic groups to form their own sovereign states. When Croatia opted to declare independence from Yugoslavia the serbs and Yugoslav troops moved in to
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