I. Nunes responds: A lack of democracy ( which is also a threat to ethic identity), lack of economic development, globalization, existence of ethnic fragmentation (and heterogenity by population size. Add refugees too) and warring neighbours, are all positively associated with the increased probability of a civil war. Picture the differences between say: Rwanda (or Afganistan) and Sweden (or Poland) to get my drift.
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > This presumes that the "democracy" is going to treat people on the >basis of their religious affiliation, and that religious polarisations >are a given. IN: ?? >Ideally, a person's religion should be a private affair, irrelevant to >those ruling the country. IN: Ergo: need for democratic governments. >Anyway, apart from religious identities there are so many other >identities we carry -- gender, language, region, ethnicity. We don't >make a big issue of these, so why focus on religion alone? IN: You forget to add caste in all its virulence.
