10 MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE CRISE RESEARCH PROGRAMME

Violent conflict in multi-ethnic and multi-religious countries remains a major problem in the world today. From the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia to the Basque region of Spain and Northern Ireland, from Ruwanda to Sudan, from Fiji to Indonesia, numerous bitter, deadly conflicts have been fought along ethnict and religious lines.
After all it has been trough, today numerous institution engaged in the violent conflict campaign the conflict resolution, how to preserve peace and prevent conflict and what causes it.

Couple months ago was held an international workshop by CRISE (Centre For Research On Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity) in Jakarta. I didn’t exist in the workshop actually, but but a colleagues has given me a book that was distributed to attendees who participated in the workshop and he did.

And the book is on my hand when I was writing this message. numerous findings of the CRIME research programme I need to Share to you all. And we might to discuss about these findings.

Below are the 10 major findings of the CRISE research programme (for particular reason, no explanation posted in this message);

1. The Probability of Conflict is Higher in Areas With Greater Economic And Social HIs

2. Conflict is More Likely Where Political, Economic And Social His Are Consistent. Conflict is Less Likely When a Particular Group Faces Deprivation in One Dimension and Dominates in Another.

3. Inclusive (Or Power-Sharing) Government Tends to Reduce The Likelihood of Conflict.

4. Citizenship Can Be an Important Source of Political and Economic Exclusion.

5. Unequal Cultural Recognition Among Groups is an Additional Motivation for Conflict and Cultural “Events’ Can Trigger Conflict.

6. Perceptions of HIs Affect The Likelihood of Conflict.

7. One Reason High Value Natural Resources Can Lead to Conflict Is They Create High HIs.

8. The Nature of The State Is a Pivotal Factor in Determining Whether Serious Conflict Erupts and Persists.

9. Some HIs Are Very Persistent, Even Lasting for Centuries.

10. International Policies and Statistics are Too Often Blind to His, Although National Policies are Often More Progressive in This Respect.

It has shown that severe HIs can be an important source of conflict, especially where they are consistent across dimension. While economic and social HIs can create fertile ground for the emergence of conflict and cultural status inequalities act to bind groups together, political HIs provide incentives for leaders to mobilize people for rebellion.

Where major HIs exist, abrupt changes in political HIs, or cultural events in which important cultural or religious symbols are attacked, often constitute powerful conflict triggers.

And the evidence in this supports three propositions:
1. Conflict is more likely in settings where there are significant political and/or economic HIs.
2. Political mobilization is especially likely when HIs are consistent; and
3. Cultural recognition or status inequalities are also provocative.