The Symbolic Politics of Ethnicity

0:00 Introduction by Roland Paris 2:18 Stuart J. Kaufman 42:40 Question Period Stuart J. Kaufman will present a theory of why ethnic conflict sometimes leads to civil war, and sometimes to a clash of contentious social movements, but at other times does not disturb the routine flow of politics. The proposed answer is based on the mechanisms of symbolic politics, starting with the symbolic predispositions (values, biases and prejudices) that are most common in the population. In symbolic politics, would-b