PO377 Ethnic Conflict and Political Violence Week 13 Seminar: Sexual Violence in Ethnic Conflict
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The Politics of Ethnic Violence: The Cases
of Rwanda and Yugoslavia
Pablo Balan
GOV 20
October 26 2017
Ethnic identity recap
I Primordialism: “Man is a national animal”
I Instrumentalism: Ethnicity is a mask. Real interests arepolitical or economic
I Constructivism: Ethnicity is the product of a socialprocess. “Nationalism created nations” [Gellner]
I Institutionalism: institutions shape and consolidate ethnicidentities
The menu
Some questions
I Is the Hutu-Tutsi difference primordial or constructed?
I What explains participation in ethnic violence?
I What is the role of the state in genocide?
I How does a country recover from such a catastrophe?
I What is the relationship between ethnic diversity andconflict?
I How does Rwanda compare to Yugoslavia?
Rwanda: Explaining participation
I Historical construction of Tutsi as invaders [Mamdani]
I State capacity, coercion [Straus]
I Culture of obedience [Prunier]
Yanagizawa-Drott (2014): Propaganda and conflict
Yanagizawa-Drott (2014): Propaganda and conflict
Heldring (2016): State history and violence
Reconciliation
I Portraits of reconciliation, New York Times, April 2014
We are all neighbors
I Documentary: We are all neighbors
Steven Pinker
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