Vocabulary
Strong loyalty to one's ethnic group, culture, or nation.
What is ethnicity?
This European country broke apart during the 1990s, leading to ethnic conflict.
What is Yugoslavia?
Competition over this resource often increases tensions between groups.
What is land?
This international organization often sends peacekeepers to conflict zones.
What is the United Nations?
Deep hatred or discrimination against a group because of their ethnicity, religion, or culture.
What is prejudice?
This region declared independence and later became a source of ethnic tensions.
What is Kosovo?
Differences in these systems of belief can contribute to ethnic conflict.
What is religion?
Discussions between opposing sides to reach an agreement are called this.
What are negotiations?
The deliberate killing of a large group of people because of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
What is genocide?
Ethnic Serbs, Croats, and this group were involved in conflicts in Bosnia.
Who are Bosniaks?
Political leaders may use this tactic by blaming another group for problems.
What is scapegoating?
Treating all ethnic groups fairly under the law can promote this.
What is equality?
The forced removal of an ethnic group from an area.
What is ethnic cleansing?
This agreement helped end the Bosnian War in 1995.
What is the Dayton Agreement?
When one ethnic group receives more political power than another, this can result.
What is inequality?
Learning about different cultures can increase this and reduce conflict.
What is tolerance?
A conflict between different ethnic, religious, or cultural groups within a country.
What is ethnic conflict?
This massacre in Bosnia became one of the worst atrocities in Europe since WWII.
What is the Srebrenica Massacre?
Colonial borders in Africa often ignored ethnic boundaries, creating this type of problem.
What is ethnic division (ethnic conflict)?
Courts created after major conflicts often seek this by prosecuting war crimes.
What is justice?