Ethnic Conflict Regulation
A number of scholars have attempted to synthesize the methods available for the resolution, management or transformation their ethnic conflict. John Coakley, for example, has developed a typology of the methods of conflict resolution that have been employed by states, which he lists as: indigenization, accommodation, assimilation, acculturation, population transfer, boundary alteration, genocide and ethnic suicide. Arguing that the degree to which ethnic tensions stem from the dynamics of inter-ethnic disparity, dominance, and repression has been critically unaccounted for, Greg Meyjes proposes a cultural rights approach to understanding and managing ethnic conflicts.
John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary have developed a taxonomy of eight macro-political ethnic conflict regulation methods, which they note are often employed by states in combination with each other. They include a number of methods that they note is clearly morally unacceptable.
- Methods for eliminating differences:
- Genocide
- Forced mass-population transfers
- Partition and/or secession (self-determination)
- Integration and/or assimilation
- Methods for managing differences:
- Hegemonic control
- Arbitration (third-party intervention)
- Cantonisation and/or federalisation
- Consociationalism or power-sharing
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