What role does prejudice play in ethnic conflict?

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 509-531

  Green, Donald P ^a   Seher, Rachel L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic conflict; Genocide; Prejudice; Propaganda; Racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242556535     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.6.121901.085642     Document Type: Review

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