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#215 Ethnic Conflict and Governance in Comparative Perspective

By Richard N. Adams, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Sidney W. Mintz, George Collier, Judith Kimerling, Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa, and Guillermo Padilla

Table of Contents

Introduction
Richard N. Adams

I. The Indigenous and the Ethnic: Latin America and the Caribbean

1. Indigenous Peoples: Emerging Actors in Latin America
Rodolfo Stavenhagen

2. Cultural Difference and Social Assortment in the Caribbean Region
Sidney W. Mintz

II. Indigenous Ethnicity, Conflict and Governance in Latin America

3. Structural Adjustment and New Regional Movements: the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
George Collier

4. Ethnic Conflict, Governance and Globalization in Latin America, with Special Attention to Guatemala
Richard N. Adams

5. Dislocation, Evangelization, and Contamination: Amazon Crude and the Huaorani People
Judith Kimerling

6. Ethnic Minorities and Constitutional Reform in Colombia
Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa

7. What Encompasses Goodness: the Law and the Indigenous People of Colombia
Guillermo Padilla

From the Acknowledgments

The following papers were presented at the conference "Ethnic Conflict and Governance in Comparative Perspective," held at the Woodrow Wilson Center on November 15, 1994. The conference and this Working Paper were made possible by a generous grant from Pew Charitable Trusts. This grant enabled the Center to mount a series of six workshops on the general topic "Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era." These workshops took a comparative approach to issues of ethnic conflict in countries around the globe: in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America; in advanced industrial economies; in countries undergoing the transition to market economies; in secular societies where religion is resurgent. Two were held abroad, in the Czech Republic and in Sri Lanka, to assure that scholars, journalists, and policymakers from other parts of the world might contribute their views to the discussion.

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