Management and Mismanagement of Diversity

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Management and Mismanagement of Diversity : The case of ethnic conflict and State-building in the Arab World

MOST Discussion Paper No. 10

Documents 4 of 13

All the world's armed conflicts since 1988, with the exception of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, have been over internal ethnic issues. In fact since 1945, ethnic conflicts have claimed some 16 million lives, several times more than those dead in inter-state wars. At present, ethnic conflicts span three old continents, Asia, Africa and Europe. Typical examples are those in Burma and Sri Lanka in Asia; Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda in Africa, the former USSR and Yugoslavia in Europe. With only 8% of the world's population, the Arab-Middle East has seen some 25% of all the world's armed conflicts since 1945. Most of these conflicts have been ethnically based.

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Author(s)	Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Website (URL)	http://www.unesco.org/most/ibraeng.htm

Publisher	UNESCO

Publication Year	1996

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