BOOK REVIEW

Promoting Conflict or Peace through Identity

Nikki Slocum-Bradley (ed.), Promoting Conflict or Peace through Identity, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.


Guy Lancaster
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture


Promoting Conflict or Peace through Identity is a collection of ten essays that examine the means by which group identities are constructed and how such identities can be employed in order to facilitate either conflict or peace. The contributors represent a variety of disciplines—sociology, psychology, political science, journalism—and provide case studies covering all regions of the world, from Melanesia and Africa to Europe and the Americas.

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