Get Your Hands On Ethnic Conflicts And Civil Society: Proposals For A New Era In Eastern Europe Crafted By Andreas Klinke In Brochure

in. After the collapse of the communist system, the political systems in Eastern Europe were unable to cope with increasing tensions between ethnic majorities and minorities.
These tensions led to violent ethnic conflicts and civil wars, in particular in former Yugoslavia, In this phase of transition and nationrebuilding, ethnic groups strove for more political autonomy and even territorial secession, The newly independent states lacked democratic structures and traditions as well as civil manners that could be used for regulating ethnic conflicts.
The idea of Civil Society provides both basic democratic mechanisms for a lasting coexistence in an ethnically plural society, The theoretical part of this book discusses

the issues of conflict anatomy, causes for conflict, and democratic conflict resolution, The empirical part describes experiences of ethnic conflicts in former Yugoslavia especially Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia in Ukraine and Romania.
Experiences from Switzerland and the United States demonstrate successful examples of ethnic conflict management and illustrations of the political culture within a Civil Society.
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