...This chapter discusses one of the characteristics of amoral communities, which was evident across different regions in Croatia: the ethnicization of everyday life. What distinguishes amoral communities from other types of wartime settings in which violence, looting...

...This chapter examines the role of the state in promoting or deterring ethnic violence. It begins with a discussion of the ways states can promote ethnic violence by using a number of examples, including the Rwandan genocide and statelessness/near-statelessness during World War II. It then considers...

... the process of ethnicization was triggered there first by two related mechanisms: the exclusion of moderates and the production of borders. Ethnicization can be defined as the fusing of a political goal with ethnicity in order to secure political support. As a result...

... memory formation and the processes of collective identity formation, or ethnicization, on the level of local communities. Based on the evidence from interviews in Croatia, Uganda, and Guatemala, the chapter argues that it is not possible to predict or generalize about how memories of historical violence...