...This chapter examines symmetries and historical continuities in the events and discourses of the Ethnic Tension in Solomon Islands. It highlights salient differences and similarities between the testimonies of the Guale and Malaitan ex-militants and argues that the ex-militants can be regarded...

...This book examines the causes of the violence and unrest that erupted in Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known as the Ethnic Tension, from the perspective of ex-militants. Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-nine men who describe themselves as ex-militants...

... and western Solomons, the history of labor migration, and the nature of postcolonial political culture and its connection with the rapacious logging industry. It then describes the politics of regional and island-wide identity before turning to the Ethnic Tension of 1998–2003 that began with the uprising...

... Halakhah Talmud Yeshivas Zohar Marienstras Richard Christianity Feuj slang for Jew Rebeu slang for Arab Gibson James National identity decolonization pluralism Ashkenazi Jews Sephardi Jews ethnic tension It is as if the [French] authorities were holding back, acting as spectators...

... of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba movements uprising upsurge stakeholders Civil Code communal violence counter-movement dominant group ethnic tension Khas Arya territorial federalism The mandate of Janandolan-II is for a republic, not for federalism. People want peace, not ethnic tension. The major...

... Dorsey Patricia Marti Gerardo Mosaic cosmopolitans Evergreen Baptist Church multiethnic churches ethnic tension communication food family People call the office and want to know if non-Asians come to our church because they really want their children to marry an Asian. —Evergreen staff member...

... wing politics South Tyrol ethnic tension “Bloody Sunday” Italianization moral vacuum annexation by Italy looting resistance When the Allies’ final offensive on the southern front began on October 24, 1918, a number of poorly supplied units of the Austro-Hungarian army refused to take part...

...This book offers important new perspectives on the violence and unrest that gripped Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known as the Ethnic Tension. Based on in-depth interviews and documents associated with the “Tension Trials,” it is the first detailed account of the conflict...

... Italian and eastern Europeans. Two maritime strikes (1911 and 1913) ended badly for the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society. The preservation of the limited sling load, protection of working conditions, ethnic tension with Italians and the presence of other ethnic workers sometimes acting as strike...

...Malaysia and Pakistan sought to address their problems through economic growth and the management of ethnic tensions. Malaysia pursued the New Economic Policy (NEP) to favor Malay bumiputras (sons of the soil), and Pakistan, under a military government, pursued aggressive economic...

...This chapter talks about how the political institutionalization in Singapore, like in Malaya, proceeded on parallel local and national tracks against a backdrop of postwar reconstruction, anticommunism, ethnic tension, and uncertainty with the benefits and disadvantages of independence and uniting...

... to negotiate her ethnic and national identities at her trial for treason after the Japanese empire collapsed. Living in an era replete with ethnic tension and international wars, Xianyu's repeated crossing of national boundaries puts her squarely within a generation of people who had complicated transnational...