The basis of world history are ethnic conflicts.Examples of such events were given to many people a very substantial cost.The bloody world wars of the twentieth century, will long be remembered in every corner of the globe.Modern society seems to be opposed to all war and conflict, at the heart of his liberal ideas, healthy competition and world globalization.However, the reality is somewhat different way.The number of conflicts on ethnic or religious grounds each year is increasing, and the cycle of struggles is involved more and more participants, which leads to a gradual scaling problems.
discrepancy between national interests, territorial claims, the negative perception of the parties to each other - all this forms the inter-ethnic conflicts.Examples of such situations are covered in political news with an enviable constancy.
ethnic conflict is a kind of social conflict, which is based on a number of factors and contradictions, as a rule, ethno-social, political, national and state.
reasons of national conflicts, if they make out in detail, in many respects very similar:
- struggle for resources.The depletion and unequal distribution of natural resources, provides the most financial flows, often leads to disputes and fomenting strife.
- population growth in a closed area, uneven level of quality of life, massive population displacement.
- the phenomenon of terrorism, requires the adoption of tough measures and, consequently, worsening conflict situations.
Religious differences
international conflicts, examples of which are given below relate primarily to the major powers of the twentieth century - the Soviet Union.Much controversy arose between the Soviet republics, especially in the Caucasus region.A similar situation persists after receipt of the former constituent parts of the Soviet country's sovereign status.Since the collapse of the Soviet Union there are more than one hundred and fifty different conflicts in Chechnya, Abkhazia and Transnistria.
Have disadvantaged minority within the sovereign state itself is the basis for the concept of "ethnic conflicts", examples of which are found more and more often.This Gagauz conflict in Moldova, Abkhazia and Ossetia - Georgia.Usually, when such contradictions within the population of the country is divided into indigenous and non, which leads to even more drastic aggravation of the situation.
Examples religious conflicts do not occur less frequently.The most striking of these is the fight against the infidels in many Islamic countries and regions (Afghanistan, Chechnya, etc).Such conflicts are also characteristic of the African continent, a fierce struggle of the Muslim authorities and representatives of other faiths has claimed more than two million lives, and the war in the Holy Land between Muslims and Jews do not last for decades.The same sad list of the conflicts in Kosovo between Serbs and Albanians, the struggle for the independence of Tibet.
