How ethnic cleavages has led to political chaos

Study of  how ethnic cleavages has led to political chaos and civil conflict between 2014 and 2017. Although the problem delineated above of opaque causal sequencing could in principle affect several findings about the drivers of civil conflict onset, it is most likely to affect findings about factors that are potentially endogenous to the initial phases of conflict.

Given recent findings that the salience of ethnic identity and narratives about ethnic marginalization are responsive to political dynamics in general and violent conflict in particular  there is good reason to believe that the initial phases of rebellion activate or strengthen ethnic identities. Understanding the influence of ethnicity on armed conflict’s start, and vice versa, thus requires a great deal of care.