Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Conflicts of Historical Contention

These type of conflicts stem from historically contested territories. In this case, the following issues can serve as a basis for further controversy:
1. An administrative status of an ethnic territory (Cases in Abkhazia, Chechnya, are illustration of this statement);
2. Conflicts that arise due to the alteration of demographic situation in particular regions or as a result of increase of non-indigenous population. Ethnic majorities are afraid of loosing of their privilege status or they try to regain their status in terms of their national rights.
3. Conflicts, bearing ethno-territorial character, that arise as a “historical echo” of people’s deportations. Generally, this type of conflicts occur over particular territories, where forcibly deportated people were resettled during deportations, or after their repatriation. These processes, in both cases, sparkle ethnic clashes between indigenous people and settlers[1].
[1]Rupesinghe K. Tishkov V. Ethnicity and Power in the Contemporary World

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