Identity conflicts : can violence be regulated Identity conflicts and their regulation: an introduction J. Craig Jenkins and Esther E. Gottlieb Uncertain connections: globalization localization identities and violence Neil J. Smelser Forging new identities The Musha Rebellion as unthinkable: coloniality aboriginality and the epistemology of colonial difference Leo T. S. Ching Dispossession and possession: the Maya identities and post war Guatemala Diane M. Nelson Public Islam as an antidote to violence Dale F. Eickelman and Armando Salvatore Suppressed identities conflicts Cyber separatism Islam and the state in China Dru C. Gladney Re evaluating the Kurdish question Michael M. Gunter The Buddhist purification movement in post colonial South Korea: restoring clerical celibacy and state intervention Pori Park Problematic national identities From expressive to actionable hatred: ethnic divisions and riots in Macedonia Robert Hislope Abkhazia: a summary of ethnic conflict Georgi M. Derluguian Reconstructing heritage and tradition in postwar Beirut Aseel Sawalha Reconstructing identities peace building Regulating peace or institutionalizing rage The identity conundrums of postwar educational policymaking in Mozambique Antoinette Errante Reconstituting guerrillas as veterans in postwar Zimbawbwe Norma Kriger Building collective identities: state democratic rebuilding Africas crisis of state building Kidane Mengisteab Weak states and democratization: ethnic and religious conflicts in Nigeria Muhammad. Sani Umar The intercultural construction of public authority in Latin America Donna Lee Van Cott Coda Can violence be regulated Esther E. Gottlieb and J. Craig Jenkins Contributors Index