How Do Ethnic Identities Solidify in a Civil War: Elites' Manipulation and/or the War-Time Dynamics?

• In Event: Violence, Identity, and Voting

Brief Overview

In this paper, I examine the relationship between civil wars and ethnicity. I test two theories, uncertainty-identity theory and elites' manipulation theory to find out how war-time dynamics shape ethnic identities.

Author

• Ayhan Sari, Free University of Berlin