Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies

Book Overview

Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities - ethnic, religious or racial - are a source of violent conflict and how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed. Policies to reverse inequality would reduce these risks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230245501
• ISBN13: 9780230245501
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"