What is Ethnic conflict?
[[File:Evstafiev-chechnya-prayer3.jpg|thumb|A [[Chechen people|Chechen]] man praying during the [[Battle of Grozny (1994–95)|battle of Grozny]] in 1995 (photograph by [[Mikhail Evstafiev]])]] [[File:Rwandan refugee camp in east Zaire.jpg|thumb|right|A [[refugee camp]] for displaced [[Tutsi]] in [[Zaire]] following the [[Rwandan Genocide]] of 1994.]] An '''ethnic conflict''' (or '''ethnic war''') is a [[conflict]] where different [[ethnic group]]s fight each other. It is different from a [[civil war]], where a single nation or ethnic group is fighting among itself. Examples of ethnic wars since the 1990s were typically caused by [[secession]]ist movements leading to the breakup of multi-ethnic states along ethnic lines: the [[Yugoslav Wars]], the [[First Chechen War]], the [[Nagorno-Karabakh War]], the [[Rwandan Civil War]] and the [[War in Darfur]], among others Academic explanations of ethnic conflict generally fall into one of three schools of thought: primordialist, instrumentalist or constructivist. Intellectual debate has also focused around the issue of whether ethnic conflict has become more common since the end of the [[Cold War]], and on finding ways of managing conflicts, through instruments such as [[consociationalism]] and [[federalisation]]. == Related pages == *[[Ethnic cleansing]] [[Category:Conflicts]] {{stub}}