Identity in International Relations: Identity in Conflict – Dynamics in conflict

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What can community be realised through?
Imagination because community members imagine they are alike
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How can a community be held together?
Because everyone within it imagines the same targets of violence and believes in to legitimacy of that violence which creates a shared enemy
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How can identity be created?
By an event
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What is Murer's Violence Triangle?
Doing violence well gives you social capital e.g. an the target is a symbolic target for an attack on the whole group
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What is a familiar foreigner?
When there is more similarity between groups there is more ferocious conflict because it takes more energy to differentiate the groups
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How can we know who the enemy is?
Because it is the part of ourself that we do not like
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What can conflict create?
Difference
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What triggered the Yugoslav wars?
The collapse of the Soviet bloc made socialism collapse, so there was a war to create a majority where there wasn't a majority before
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What effect did the war have on identity?
In 1985 10.8% of people saw themselves as Yugoslav but as the war went on, people were forced to see themselves as an ethnicity so in 1996 on 0.5% of people saw themselves as Yugoslav
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What triggered the Bosnian Wars?
An attempt to fill 'non-majority' spaces
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What was the problem with identity in the Kosovo war?
There were many different identities in Kosovo who didn't fit into the war between the Serbs and the Albanian Muslims so they were not represented during the war. And the solution of the government made up of Serbs, Croats and Muslim is the same
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What does ethnic conflict reduce subjects to?
Objects and dehumanises people
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What does the Douaumont Ossuary reflect?
How being together in death in France shapes the conflict of ethnicity in the present
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What happens to our identity under threat?
We seek the security of those whom we recognise as the same and those who recognise us as the same
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