ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND (IM)POSSIBILITIES TO PREVENT THEM Cover Image

ЕТНИЧКИ СУКОБИ У МУЛТИКУЛТУРНИМ ДРУШТВИМА И (НЕ)МОГУЋНОСТИ ЊИХОВОГ ПРЕДУПРЕЂИВАЊА
ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND (IM)POSSIBILITIES TO PREVENT THEM

Author(s): Milan Tripković
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Ethnic conflicts; Multicultural societies; Serbia; Yugoslavia;

Summary/Abstract: This paper points out the main characteristics and the major consequences of ethnic conflicts in multicultural societies. Also, the (im)possibilities to prevent them are also questioned. The base for this analysis are ethnic conflicts that occured on the territory of former Yugoslavia, which are in some of their aspects qualified as typical, and in others as specific. Examination of the question of ethnic conflicts in multicultural societies is approached with an essential intention to show how the joint destructive action of domestic actors and a negative interference from the side neccesarily produce cathastrophic consequences in such societies. With the intention to offer a more balanced and a more complete perspective of this crucial problem, the author pleads for the respect of few ground principles in dealing with and forseeing the eruption of ethnic conflicts.

  • Issue Year: 39/2005
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 99-121
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian