Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies

by Frances Stewart (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $123.97

  Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities - ethnic, religious or racial - are a source of violent conflict and how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed. Policies to reverse inequality would reduce these risks.