Ethnicity Kills?

List of Tables, Figures and Maps Preface Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Ethnicity Kills? Social Struggles for Power, Resources and Identities in the Neopatrimonial State; E.Braathen, M.Boås & G.Saether The Politics of War: A Meditation; V.Y.Mudimbe PART 2: ETHNICITY AND CIVIL WAR The Somali Catastrophe: Explanation and Implications; A.I.Samatar Causes of Civil War in Rwanda: The Weight of History and Socio-Cultural Structures ; A.Lema The Struggle for Kingship: Moses or Messiah - Ethnic War and the Use of Ethnicity in the Process of Democratisation in Congo-Brazzaville; A.Sundberg The Political Economy of State Collapse in Somalia and Liberia; G.Saether PART 3: TRANSITIONS FROM WAR TO PEACE? Nigeria and West Africa: from a Regional Security Complex to a Regional Security Community?; M.Boås Nationalism and Ethnicities: Lessons from Mozambique; M.Cahen Conclusion - Transcending the Discourse on the Politics of War; E.Braathen, M.Boås & G.Saether Bibliography Index