Ethnic Conflict.

Ethnic conflict

Ethnic conflict is a war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism. They are of interest because of the apparent prevalence since the Cold War and because they frequently result in war crimes, such as, genocide. This is a very interesting topic that has generated heated debate around the world on issues such as: Do ethnic divisions inevitably generate violence? If you can delete the ethnic conflict, would need eliminate the memory of past generations? It is clear that no one has the absolute truth on this subject, but many facts demonstrate that changing this problem is not easy and that the consequences could be worse.

First, it is important to understand that ethnic conflicts have, in some cases, a central role in contemporary word polities. We can mention many examples: the Arabic- Israeli conflict, the situation in Darfur, the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the civil war in Lebanon, Rwanda and Sri Lanka, … and so on… but only these kind of conflicts, those with a violent nature, survive in the heart of the international public opinion. So, we can think ethnic divisions not always generate violence, but how we can achieve that the people forget all these problems and the consequences of that?

In addition, to the last problem, the different nationalities generate variety of cultures, and customs, and all the persons think that they are walking in the good way and it is too difficult to understand why “others” do not recognize the reason we do some activities that we like to do, why religions are too different and why we need to defend their customs. All of them think they do the best or correct things, it is because the rationalism and the term “identify” usually have an important role in the kind of conflicts.

Other point is that you can delete the ethnic conflict, would need eliminate the memory of the past generations, this topic have controversies for too many people, because how or why we need to eliminate the history and what is the way to do that. At this point, we must clarity we do not erase the past conflicts, but we can work to build a better place for the next generations, invites to have a democratic place and respect others.

In conclusion, I repeat that changing this problems is not easy, but if the consequences are very but, why we do not make the effort to motivate the individual or collective identity as the main source of meaning in a network in society. We can win too many things.