Title: Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence
Description: "Throughout the world, development has been affected by armed violence - from civil wars and separatist struggles to explosions of religious and communal violence and terrorism. Ethnolinguistic and religious diversity, rivalries among regional groups and clans, and competing economic interests create a potential for acrimonious intergroup divisions. Yet some nations remain stable, while others, earlier touted as pillars of peaceful growth, have foundered badly. Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence argues that economic development strategies, though embedded within a complex matrix of social and political conditions, have often shaped such different outcomes. Drawing on economic, political, and psychological theory, policy experiences, and case studies of the three regional volumes in the series (Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America; Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia; and The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa), this book assesses the risks and opportunities of development strategies regarding the likelihood of inter-group violence. Policymakers and development practitioners will greatly benefit from this detailed and comprehensive analysis of how development initiatives may affect group identities, influence multiple disparities among groups, create "conflict-opportunity structures," and change the dynamics of state-society relations"--

"The book, relying on the case studies of the three regional volumes in the series, comprehensively assesses the risks and opportunities of development strategies in terms of the likelihood of inter-group violence"--
Subjects: Conflict management, Economic development, social aspects, Intergroup relations, Insurgency, Developing countries, politics and government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General, Economic development, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Economic aspects, Social aspects