Ethnic conflicts in Southeast Asia

Author(s)

• Kusuma Snitwongse
• Thompson, W. Scott (Willard Scott)
• Čhulālongkǭnmahāwitthayālai. Sathāban Sưksā Khwāmmankhong læ Nānāchāt
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Bibliographic Information

Ethnic conflicts in Southeast Asia

edited by Kusuma Snitwongse, W. Scott Thompson

Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University , Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• Preliminary pages with Introduction
• 1. Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia: Causes and the Quest for Solution by Rizal Sukma
• 2. Ethnic Conflict, Prevention and Management: The Malaysian Case by Zakaria Haji Ahmad and Suzaina Kadir
• 3. Dreams and Nightmares: State Building and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar (Burma) by Tin Maung Maung Than
• 4. The Moro and the Cordillera Conflicts in the Philippines and the Struggle for Autonomy by Miriam Coronel Ferrer
• 5. The Thai State and Ethnic Minorities: From Assimilation to Selective Integration by Chayan Vaddhanaphutti.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA75057841
• ISBN:
  • 9812303375
  • 9812303405
• Country Code: th
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Bangkok],Singapore
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 173 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethnic conflict -- Southeast Asia
  • LCSH : Social conflict -- Southeast Asia
  • LCSH : Conflict management -- Southeast Asia
  • LCSH : Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations