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    The Tiv-Jukun Ethnic Conflict and the Citizenship Question in Nigeria Moses T. ALUAIGBA Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training‚ Bayero University‚ Kano Abstract The negative consequences of the Tiv-Jukun ethnic conflict and other similar conflicts in Nigeria have stimulated the debate on citizenship in the country. This debate is driven by questions that hinge on contestable issues such as who is an indigene in Nigeria‚ why should other Nigerians be termed non-indigenes‚ settlers

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    2. Discuss the effect that modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict. The effect modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict is not a great one. Early modernization theorists‚ who were quite optimistic about the positive effects of literacy‚ urbanization‚ and modern values‚ clearly underestimated the extent to which these factors might mobilize various ethnic groups and set them against each other (Handelman‚ 2011‚ p. 113). Modernization challenged

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    Ethnic Conflicts are a very important issue that can affect a whole country/state. Ethnic conflicts within a state belong to identity conflicts that are a type of internal conflicts. Sometimes the term ethnic conflict is used to describe a large range of internal conflicts .Before talking about ethnic conflict‚ it is important to know the meaning of ethnicity. . Ethnic groups usually have collectivity or psychological communities who share a combination of historical experience and valued cultural

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    Ethnic Group Conflict Diversity and Cultural Factors in Psychology PSY/450 January 5‚ 2012 Cultural clashes‚ global wars‚ international misunderstandings‚ and ethnic conflicts have been occurring for decades. As early as the 1940s‚ constant hostility within the Middle East has resulted in suffering to human rights‚ education‚ and family structure (Huntington‚ Fronk & Chadwick‚ 2001). Culture seems to be implicated as the major contributor to conflict. The increasing modernization is strongly

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    Ethnic Conflict In Iraq

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    continues to elude Iraqis‚ regional interests‚ and the Western world almost fifteen years later. Why such chaos? Even the American “surge” of soldiers in 2007 did little to quell the violence. Ethnic conflict between the Kurds‚ Sunnis‚ and Shias‚ extant prior to American involvement‚ intensified post-invasion. This paper posits that American mismanagement of the National Iraqi Army (NIA) contributed to the escalation of ethnic conflict and the insecurity that ensued.The National Iraqi Army‚ broken

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    Ethnic Conflict in Rwanda

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    Name of Instructor: Subject: Date: Ethnic Conflict in Rwanda The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is‚ by all accounts‚ the worst war related disaster since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in World War II. In Rwanda‚ 800‚000 people died in less than one hundred days. As the well wishers of Europe and the United States turned a blind eye to what was happening in Rwanda‚ thousands of machete-wielding youths turned Rwanda into a mass grave. Although‚ the United Nations sent its peacekeepers they

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    Ethnic conflict between Israeli and Palestine Many countries during the time have fought one another. Some of the fights resulted in global wars‚ some maintained only a local significance‚ but still there are a lot of issues that are dealt with by using military force. These issues have varied over the time from the distribution of power to religion‚ race‚ and ethnicity and so on. The purpose of this essay is to look into the ethnic conflict of Israel and Palestine and to reveal the basis of

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    Ethnic Conflict in North East India--- in light of ‘Ratna Bharali Talukdar’s “JEREI HAGRAMAYA GAWO” Bharadwaj Gogoi Asst. Prof. Dept. of English North Bank College‚ Ghilamara INTRODUCTION:- Jerei Hagramaya Gawo which literally means “the way forest weeps” is a noteworthy novel by Ratna Bharali Talukdar whose central theme is based on the ethnic conflicts prevailing in North East India. Though the novel is published in October 2012‚ the

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    ETHNIC CONFLICT DBQ

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    Ethnic Conflict DBQ Over the course of the years world history has continued to change. New conflicts are constantly developing. In order to keep these conflicts under control special foundations and laws such as the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights have been founded. Despite the creation of the United Nations and the issuance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ conflict has continued in the post-World War II era. The attempts at keeping peace have and have not been

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    possible solution to end the ongoing ethnic conflict in The Philippines. The Muslim Filipinos of Mindanao and the Christian Filipinos have been fighting the second oldest internal ethnic dispute in the world. Over 120‚000 people have died and 2 million have been displaced in this four decades long battle.1 For many years‚ the central government’s attempts at peace‚ institutional restructuring‚ and regional autonomy have failed. It is clear that this ethnic conflict must be resolved in order for the

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