Preventing ethnic violence with local capacities : lessons from civil society in India
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Preventing ethnic violence with local capacities : lessons from civil society in India
UMI Dissertation Services : ProQuest , [Distributed by] Yushodo Dissertation Service Center, c2011
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UMI no.: 3457499
Facsim. reprint of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, May, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-262)
Summary: The research questions are: How have civil society organizations (CSOs) in India prevented Hindu-Muslim riots? And what can these experiences teach us about building local capacities around the world to prevent ethnic riots? This study seeks to elucidate patterns of institutional identities, relationships, and micro-level processes that can improve CSOs' ability to prevent ethnic riots. The Hindu-Muslim conflict offers a specific case from which a general framework for CSO interventions is induced. There is little systematic comparison of successful micro-level processes of riot prevention. Anecdotes of CSO successes do not offer guidance on why they were successful and if they are relevant for other CSOs in other places. Understanding these successes and challenges in a comparative framework, rather than as isolated events, is not only important for developing preventive mechanisms in India, but it can also offer lessons for increasing capacities for prevention in other multi-ethnic societies. Inter
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