Violence Through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model
Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con­ flict studies focus more and more on domestic conflicts. This is a broad field, not only because the arbitrary line between war and sub-war violence disap­ pears and the analyst is confronted with phenomena reaching from criminal violence and clashes between communities to violent conflicts of long duration and civil wars with massacres and genocides as their characteristics. It is also because there are so many different types of conflicts to be analyzed, so many different types of behavior to be studied, whereas there is often little information available on what is really going on. Against the background of internal conflicts, which tend to be as protracted as diffuse in terms of time, intensity, actors, and their goals, this study aims to follow a specific pathway through the current thicket of violent circumstances. It focuses on causation patterns by exploring the causal role of the environmental factor in the genesis of violent conflicts occurring today and probably even more so tomorrow. This approach, which for once does not focus on a specific level of the conflict system, on one area in the conflict geography, or on a specific category of actors, analyzes causation dynamics.
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Violence Through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model
Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con­ flict studies focus more and more on domestic conflicts. This is a broad field, not only because the arbitrary line between war and sub-war violence disap­ pears and the analyst is confronted with phenomena reaching from criminal violence and clashes between communities to violent conflicts of long duration and civil wars with massacres and genocides as their characteristics. It is also because there are so many different types of conflicts to be analyzed, so many different types of behavior to be studied, whereas there is often little information available on what is really going on. Against the background of internal conflicts, which tend to be as protracted as diffuse in terms of time, intensity, actors, and their goals, this study aims to follow a specific pathway through the current thicket of violent circumstances. It focuses on causation patterns by exploring the causal role of the environmental factor in the genesis of violent conflicts occurring today and probably even more so tomorrow. This approach, which for once does not focus on a specific level of the conflict system, on one area in the conflict geography, or on a specific category of actors, analyzes causation dynamics.
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Violence Through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model

Violence Through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model

by Günther Baechler
Violence Through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model

Violence Through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model

by Günther Baechler

Hardcover(1999)

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Overview

Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con­ flict studies focus more and more on domestic conflicts. This is a broad field, not only because the arbitrary line between war and sub-war violence disap­ pears and the analyst is confronted with phenomena reaching from criminal violence and clashes between communities to violent conflicts of long duration and civil wars with massacres and genocides as their characteristics. It is also because there are so many different types of conflicts to be analyzed, so many different types of behavior to be studied, whereas there is often little information available on what is really going on. Against the background of internal conflicts, which tend to be as protracted as diffuse in terms of time, intensity, actors, and their goals, this study aims to follow a specific pathway through the current thicket of violent circumstances. It focuses on causation patterns by exploring the causal role of the environmental factor in the genesis of violent conflicts occurring today and probably even more so tomorrow. This approach, which for once does not focus on a specific level of the conflict system, on one area in the conflict geography, or on a specific category of actors, analyzes causation dynamics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780792354956
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 11/30/1998
Series: Social Indicators Research Series , #2
Edition description: 1999
Pages: 321
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: The Transformation of Society-Nature Relationship.- 2 Discussion: State of the Art.- 3 Correlations: Environment, Maldevelopment, and Violent Conflict.- 4 Typology: Types of Conflicts and the Role of the Environment.- 5 Case Study: Why Environmental Discrimination Caused Violence on the ‘Mille Collines’.- 6 Model: Causal Relationship between Environmental Transformation and Violent Conflict.- 7 Empirical Evidence: Six Area Studies and Six Control Cases to Check the Model.- 8 Outlook: Conflict Potential, Sustainable Development, and Environmental Security.- 9 Appendix: Tables.- 10 Glossary.- 11 Bibliography.
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