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With increasing urban population density, conflicts in cities erupt
more frequently and violently. Cities have become hotspots for
armed combat, highlighting the urgency of understanding the impact
of local communities and urban factors on the development of
violent conflict. Joldon Kutmanaliev presents a novel approach to
analyzing communal violence and armed conflicts in urban zones.
Drawing from fieldwork in cities of southern Kyrgyzstan, he
explains local-level variations in violence across neighbourhoods
during the most intense and violent episode of urban communal
violence in Central Asia – the clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks
in June 2010. Kutmanaliev explains why armed violence affects some
urban neighbourhoods but not others, why local communities react
differently to the same existential threat, how they deal with a
deteriorating security environment and interethnic fears, and how
different types of urban planning and urban landscapes influence
the spread of violence. Importantly, the book identifies key
factors that help local communities and their leaders to negotiate
non-aggression pacts and control local constituencies, and
therefore successfully prevent violence. Intercommunal Warfare and
Ethnic Peacemaking explains communal war and ethnic peacemaking on
the level of neighbourhood communities – a perspective that is
largely absent in previous studies.
In the 30 years since the emergence of the post-Soviet conflicts
things have both changed and remained the same - continuities and
changes in post-Soviet conflicts are the primary themes of this
volume - it addresses all major wars, civil wars, and rebellions in
the former Soviet Union. The volume focuses on factors that have
contributed or may contribute to the resolution of the post-Soviet
conflicts, most of which have represented rather long and damaging
crises. In all conflict cases Moscow has been guided by Russian
state interests - some have been instigated or fueled, others
driven to a frozen state, and still a couple of others have been
constructively resolved due to Moscow's intervention. Russia has
used a long-term strategy for the resolution of those conflicts
that have taken place on its soil, but in regards to the conflicts
in other post-Soviet states, there is no long-term solution in
sight. As such, the conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and
Nagorniy Karabakh, remain unresolved involving not only the named
states, but Russia as well. They may represent localized national
or regional crisis impacting only the states involved, but for the
Russian Federation they epitomize one huge post-Soviet crisis with
no obvious end.
In the 30 years since the emergence of the post-Soviet conflicts
things have both changed and remained the same - continuities and
changes in post-Soviet conflicts are the primary themes of this
volume - it addresses all major wars, civil wars, and rebellions in
the former Soviet Union. The volume focuses on factors that have
contributed or may contribute to the resolution of the post-Soviet
conflicts, most of which have represented rather long and damaging
crises. In all conflict cases Moscow has been guided by Russian
state interests - some have been instigated or fueled, others
driven to a frozen state, and still a couple of others have been
constructively resolved due to Moscow's intervention. Russia has
used a long-term strategy for the resolution of those conflicts
that have taken place on its soil, but in regards to the conflicts
in other post-Soviet states, there is no long-term solution in
sight. As such, the conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and
Nagorniy Karabakh, remain unresolved involving not only the named
states, but Russia as well. They may represent localized national
or regional crisis impacting only the states involved, but for the
Russian Federation they epitomize one huge post-Soviet crisis with
no obvious end.
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