The academic study and the practice of conflict resolution make use of a wide variety of paradigms. Ideally, the presence of competing concepts and theories should be taken as a sign of rude health in academia. In the field of ethnic conflict studies, however, the competition of paradigms has so...

Introduction : experience in prevention / Barnett R. Rubin with Susanna P. Campbell -- Nationalism and civic identity : ethnic models for Macedonia and Kosovo / Steven L. Burg -- Learning from Burundi's failed democratic transition, 1993-96 : did international initiatives match the problem? /...