The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict

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The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict is written by E. Cairns and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1403919828 (ISBN 10) and 9781403919823 (ISBN 13).

What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the twenty-first century? Indeed, can knowledge about the relationship between memory and conflict help resolve intergroup conflicts and heal individual hurts? This book presents a series of essays both theoretical and empirical that approach these questions from a variety of disciplines that will highlight a much-neglected aspect of one of the major problems facing the world today.