Book Series: Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Cold War World

April 2009 | Practitioner Tool

This USIP-produced series includes two pioneering works on ethnic conflict in the post-Cold War world. The first volume presents a disturbing picture of spreading ethnic violence. The second documents a pronounced decline since the early 1990s, but also identifies some ninety groups at significant risk of conflict and repression in the early 21st century. The book cautions that the emerging global regime of principles and strategies governing relations between communal groups and states is far from perfect or universally effective