Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia

• Other Authors: Kusuma Snitwongse (Editor), Thompson, W. Scott (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Pasir Panjang ISEAS Publications 2005
• Subjects: Ethnic conflict > Southeast Asia; Social conflict > Southeast Asia; Conflict management > Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia > Ethnic relations
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• Physical Description: xi, 173 pages 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-166) and index
• ISBN: 9789812303370 (hardback); 9812303375 (hardback); 9789812303400 (paperback); 9812303405 (paperback)

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.