Abstract
Ethnicity has been the most significant phenomenon of the
modern world. Stratification and diversification with variegated
dimensions and context is an inbound mechanism of a social
fabric of a society and state. Different scholars, intellectuals and
men of letters studied the phenomenon of ethnicity in different
ways. Some intellectuals call it as a minority, insiders, outsiders,
others and nationalities. Ethnicity can be defined as a group of
individuals identified on the basis of race, colour, language and
territory. These groups have been existing almost in every part
of the world. In reality the states are plural societies with many
national, sub-national, religious, professional, racial, linguistic
and geographic identities. In some states these identities live
side by side, while in others they conflict with each other and
undermine political edifice of the society. Ethnic identities live
peacefully without conflicting with each other until and unless
they are triggered to do so. The apparent and pre-dominant
cause of conflict among different ethnic identities is politicoeconomic imbalance and these identities, if in conflict have
potential to destabilize or disintegrate the political system of any
country. There is hard need to initiate various measures, though
which will not eliminate the possibilities of ethnic conflicts, but
definitely minimize them.
Gulshan Majeed. (2013) Ethnicity and Conflict: A Theoretical Perspective, Journal of Political Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1.
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