Ethnicity and Violence in the Modern World: the Case of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

... the result of violence than its root cause. It is worth mentioning that at the micro-level individual behaviour is hardly determined by ethnic belonging alone; and this holds true even under the dire circumstances of ethnic violence. The problem with ethnicity and violence is not so much that there is no agreement on how things are to be explained, it is that there is no agreement on what is to be explained, or whether there is a single set of phenomena to be explained. Empirical evidence suggests ...