ethnic conflicts
Identity-based group violence
Ethnic conflicts are clashes between groups defined by shared ancestry, culture, language, or religion.
The term covers everything from neighborhood tensions to civil wars and genocide.
Ethnic conflicts often involve disputes over territory, political power, or resources, with group identity becoming the organizing principle for violence: The region has been scarred by ethnic conflicts for decades.
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- Yugoslav Wars1990s southeastern European ethnic conflicts
- Armenian GenocideOttoman massacre of Armenians
- peacebuildingEstablishing lasting harmony post-conflict
- truth commissionPanel investigating past atrocities
reconciliation · historical grievances · trauma · resource scarcity · nationalism · violence · power-sharing · peace talks · protests · border clashes · hate speech · displacement · refugee camps · homeland · riots · massacre · blood feud · old wounds
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- BalkansAlbania, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Kosovo
- Conflict ZonesGaza, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq
- Caucasus historyArmenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Chechnya, Dagestan
- South Asian Conflictssurgical strikes, militancy, insurgency, border disputes, artillery duels
- YugoslaviaYugoslavia, Tito, Belgrade, Serbia, Croatia
ethnic conflictsracial harmony
Peaceful multiethnic coexistence
peaceful coexistence · social cohesion · ethnic integration · unity in diversity · tolerance
ethnic conflictsclass warfare
Conflict between economic groups
religious wars · political revolutions · territorial disputes · colonial wars · resource wars
ethnic conflictsnational unity
Shared identity across citizenry
assimilation · cultural integration · multiculturalism · cosmopolitanism