Ethnic Conflict
Ethnic Conflict by Stefan Wolff is a 2006 Psychology & Mind book written by TED speaker Stefan Wolff, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "The path to ending ethnic conflicts: Stefan Wolff on TED.com" (2010), 393K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 4 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 3rd of 5 books by Stefan Wolff on Books Worth Reading (2002–2022), by publication year.
- Edition: Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 · 240 pages
The paired TED talk
The path to ending ethnic conflicts: Stefan Wolff on TED.com (2010), the TED talk by Stefan Wolff.
From the publisher
Over the past decade, ethnic conflicts have destabilized entire regions, devastated economics development, uprooted communities, and wreaked unimaginable human suffering." "Stefan Wolff looks beyond the surface of the immediate crises to understand the nature of ethnic conflict more generally, highlighting the structural similarities and accounting for the differences among a wide range of cases, including the Middle East, Kosovo, Sudan, and Sri Lanka, and offering fresh insights on these and other violent conflicts.
Drawing on his experience and efforts to study and resolve ethnic conflicts world-wide, Wolff provides an introduction to the origins, dynamics, and management of these disputes. In doing so, he helps explain the fundamental question underlying all ethnic conflict: why do nationalism and ethnicity have such terrible power to turn neighbour against neighbour? And, more importantly, what can the world do about it?