Overview

Ethnopolitical conflicts have grown in frequency over the past 30 years. At the same time, major powers like the US seem less inclined to get involved in internal conflicts far from home, especially after the trials of Rwanda, Somalia and Kosovo. Arms fuel ethnic tension and violence, and yet the relationship between arms and ethnic conflict is not well understood. This study explores the function of arms in ethnic conflict by looking at arms acquisition by ethnic groups, goverment involvement in escalation, and the role of outsiders in arms influx and sometimes, conflict resolution.

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Author:   John Sislin ,  Frederic S. Pearson
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780847688555

ISBN 10:   0847688550
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   07 August 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Sislin and Pearson dissect incisively the many ways in which the stocks and supply of arms affect the onset, course, and outcomes of ethnic warfare. Efforts to establish an international regime regulating the flow of arms to countries in crisis are thus far weak and wildly inconsistent, but the authors document just enough instances of partial success to justify redoubled efforts. First and last steps are clear and feasible. The first is to monitor and publicize stocks and flows of arms, light arms most of all, in bad neighborhoods. The last is to provide international incentives and guarantees for decommissioning arms and armies, an essential step in civil war settlement.--Gurr, Ted Robert

Author Information

John Sislin is a research associate at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland. Frederic S. Pearson is director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies on Mediating Theory and Democratic Systems at Wayne State University.

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