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By Lura Sanborn - Reference Librarian February 24th, 2010

Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts edited by Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr., Greenwood, 2003.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 305.8 R83

A one-volume guide concerning the study of global ethnic conflict during the 20th Century.  Each of the thirty-eight individual entries discusses the historical background of a particular ethnic conflict, how the conflict was managed, and the impact of the conflict.

Examples include:

• Canada: The Nationalist Movement in Quebec
• China: Ethnic Conflict and the International System
• France: The “Foreigner” Issue
• Middle East: The Arab-Jewish Struggle for Palestine to 1948
• Rwanda: Hutu-Tutsi Conflict and Genocide in Central Africa
• United States: The United States – Puerto Rico Relationship

Helpful for:  Literature of Witness, Middle Eastern Voices, Gender Studies, International Studies, Social History, World Politics, Humanities

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