Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia: From Soil to God

by Chris Wilson

Book Overview

Ethno-religious violence in Indonesia illustrates in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.

From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia's period of democratization. For almost a year, militias waged a brutal religious war which claimed the lives of almost four thousand lives. The conflict culminated in ethnic cleansing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415502004
• ISBN13: 9780415502009
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"