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Peace and Conflict Studies
Theory and Methodology
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- ISBN 9781845453084
- Weight: 517g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2007
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Fulbright's 2002-2003 New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world whose work "addresses[ed] sectarian, ethnic and cultural conflict within and across national borders." Several of us agreed that group identity lies at the root of ethnic and sectarian violence. We spent a year in intense discussion of parallel research projects. This book is the result. It describes the processes, which lead to ethnic and sectarian violence, and reveals how alternative paths through intergroup tension can be made apparent by understanding the patterns of behavior used by groups worldwide to maintain their identities and by appreciating the unique identity of each group involved in a conflict, that is, what it holds sacred and what seems inalienable from it.
James L. Peacock is Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is immediate past director of the University Center for International Studies. In 1995, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The American Anthropological Association awarded him the Boas Award in 2002. His publications include: The Anthropological Lens (Cambridge University Press, 2001; Revision in press), Pilgrims of Paradox (Smithsonian Institutions Press, 1989), and Muslim Puritans (University of California Press, 1978). Patricia M. Thornton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she has also served as Director of Asian Programs and Coordinator of the East Asian Studies Program. She has published widely on politics and social conflict in China. Patrick B. Inman is a freelance academic editor, independent historian, and former student of Dr. Peacock's with whom he co-authored a consensus document for the Identity Matters group.
