Ethnic conflict has become a leading cause of mass violence in the world. A person's sense of who they are, their identity, can be a powerful motivating force whether that identity is founded upon ethnicity, religion, or language. Many scholars have suggested that identity is a …
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The study of public perceptions on nationalism continues to be problematic for sociology and the social sciences. For example, do the people of Catalan think of themselves first as being Catalonians, or are they Spanish or even European? Likewise, if the people have a hard time …
This study unites the burgeoning academic field of exhibition histories and the critiques of race-based exhibition practices that crystallised in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. It concerns recent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly f…
Why do the groups that fight secessionist wars frequently go back and forth between violence and nonviolence? While empirical evidence from the existing literature shows that most secessionist conflicts are violent, the literature does not address why the level of violence withi…
It is in the interest of this thesis to investigate why governments negotiate with separatist terrorists, and why those negotiations succeed or fail. The four cases analyzed in this thesis include: Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (1983-2009); Russia and the C…
Separatism has plagued Indonesia since its independence. This dissertation examines four cases of separatism in Indonesia, including the South Moluccas, West Papua, and East Timor, as well as one case where separatism did not emerge, Sumba. It describes sovereignty in Indonesia …
Why do the institutional outcomes of armed separatist conflicts vary? Separatist conflicts have diverse institutional effects. Though many separatists hope to create sovereign states, few achieve their aims. More often, their conflicts lead to forms of intra-state autonomy, inde…
Through case study research The Church of Israel was examined to determine whether it should be considered as part of the Christian Identity movement, or simply a church that teaches Biblical Aryanism and racial separatism. They contend they mean harm to no group of people and a…