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Record Nr.

UNISA996210085603316

Autore

Snitwongse Kusuma

Titolo

Ethnic conflicts in Southeast Asia / / edited by Kusuma Snitwongse, W. Scott Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bangkok], Thailand : , : Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University

Singapore : , : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, , 2005

ISBN

981-4515-36-1

981-230-340-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 173 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

323.159

Soggetti

Ethnic conflict - Southeast Asia

Social conflict - Southeast Asia

Conflict management - Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Snitwongse, Kusuma / Thompson, W. Scott -- Notes -- 1. Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia: Causes and the Quest for Solution / Sukma, Rizal -- 2. Ethnic Conflict, Prevention and Management: The Malaysian Case / Ahmad, Zakaria Haji / Kadir, Suzaina -- 3. Dreams and Nightmares: State Building and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar (Burma) / Than, Tin Maung Maung -- 4. The Moro and the Cordillera Conflicts in the Philippines and the Struggle for Autonomy / Ferrer, Miriam Coronel -- 5. The Thai State and Ethnic Minorities: From Assimilation to Selective Integration / Vaddhanaphuti, Chayan -- Index -- About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines different ethnic configurations and conflict avoidance and resolution in five different Southeast Asian countries.   Tin Maung Maung Than traces the history and impossibility of the current Myanmar regime's quest to integrate the various ethnic groups in the border regions while insisting on a unitary state with all real power kept to themselves.  Rizal Sukma divides conflicts in Indonesia



into horizontal (Kalimantan, Maluku and Sulawesi) and vertical ones (the Madurese versus the Dayaks) and assesses the prospects for peaceful resolution if the country's fledgling democracy does not properly address them.  Miriam Coronel Ferrer examines the conflicts in Mindanao against the apparent lack of willingness of Manila to come to terms with the root causes as well as the infusion of arms and ideology from outside.  Zakaria Haji Ahmad and Suzaina Kadir analyse Malaysia's relatively successful handling of an ethnically divided society, which has permitted impressive stability since 1969.   Chayan Vaddhanaphuti focuses on the non-Thai border peoples of northern Thailand, noting the legacy of the government's policy of selective citizenship.  Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia will be an invaluable resource for scholars of contemporary Southeast Asia as well as in other regions, policy-makers and others, who wish to assess and develop strategies to prevent, modulate and resolve such conflicts.