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International Journal of Conflict Management
Volume 22 issue 1

Special Issue on
Managing Ethnic Conflicts

Edited by Richard Posthuma, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

This unique special issue illustrates how ethnic issues are important in understanding conflict management. These articles illustrate how it is particularly important to understand the differences in conflict styles and also the means and methods of participation of constituents and third parties in the field of ethnic conflict management.
One of the goals of the International Journal of Conflict Management is to encourage research from a wide range of scholars from many different countries (Posthuma, 2005).  This special issue achieves this goal by gathering papers from different countries and cultures that deal with managing ethnic conflicts.  The five studies in this issue examine various topics, including differences in conflict styles, participation of different constituencies and stakeholders in conflict resolution, and the influence of different forms of communication on conflict intervention preferences.
These papers represent a diverse set of countries, ethnic groups, and a wide range of research methods.  Countries represented in this special issue include France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, and the United States, whilst a range of ethnic groups are discussed, including Arabs, Christians, Hindus, Israelis, Muslims, and Palestinians.  The research methods include experiments, qualitative interviews, and surveys.  
 
References

Posthuma, R. A. (2005). "The need for more influential international conflict management research. International Journal of Conflict Management, Vol. 16 No 3, pp. 212-217
Table of Contents
 
Managing Ethnic Conflicts
Richard A. Posthuma
 
An examination of conflict style preferences in India
Stephen M. Croucher, Kyle J. Holody, Manda V.Hicks, Deepa Oommen & Alfred Demaris,  Bowling Green State University, USA
 
Political information and emotions in ethnic conflict interventions
Cigdem V. Sirin, José D. Villalobos,  University of Texas at El Paso, USA  and Nehemia Geva,  Texas A&M University, USA
 
Muslim and Christian conflict styles in Western Europe
Stephen M. Croucher, Bowling Green State University, USA
 
The Bangladesh Approach to the Palestinian-Israeli Struggle: A Desperate Strategy to Cope with a State of Emergency
Sapir Handelman,  Harvard University and Wayne State University, USA
 
Women in Sulha – Excluded Yet Influential: Examining Women's Formal and Informal Role in Traditional Dispute Resolution, Within the Patriarchal Culture of Northern Israel's Arab Community
Doron Pely,  Sulha Research Center, Israel
 
 

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