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Preventing ethnic violence with local capacities
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Preventing ethnic violence with local capacities
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lessons from civil society in India
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Vaitla
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Srinivas
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1973-
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Srinivas Vaitla
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Langhorne
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Richard
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Richard Langhorne
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chair
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Ferguson
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R. Brian
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R. Brian Ferguson
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internal member
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Schock
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Kurt
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Kurt Schock
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Hart
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Barry Hart
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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2011
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2011-05
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eng
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Global Affairs
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Ethnic conflict--India
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Civil society--India
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Srinivas Vaitla
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vi, 263 p. : ill.
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The research questions are: How have civil society organizations (CSOs) in India prevented Hindu-Muslim riots? And what can these experiences teach us about building local capacities around the world to prevent ethnic riots? This study seeks to elucidate patterns of institutional identities, relationships, and micro-level processes that can improve CSOs‘ ability to prevent ethnic riots. The Hindu-Muslim conflict offers a specific case from which a general framework for CSO interventions is induced. There is little systematic comparison of successful micro-level processes of riot prevention. Anecdotes of CSO successes do not offer guidance on why they were successful and if they are relevant for other CSOs in other places. Understanding these successes and challenges in a comparative framework, rather than as isolated events, is not only important for developing preventive mechanisms in India, but it can also offer lessons for increasing capacities for prevention in other multi-ethnic societies. Interviews, based on questionnaires that were developed, were the main form of data gathering. Two types of comparisons was done: 1) comparing successful and unsuccessful cases of prevention between organizations in a city, and 2) comparing successful cases in different cities and noting similarities and differences in institutions and strategies. In addition to specific lessons detailed in the thesis, the following broad principles were uncovered as important for effective prevention. 1) Regular contact with potential victims and leaders in communally sensitive communities is the foundation for prevention. 2) Development CSOs in the field are best placed to conduct operational prevention because their work in communally sensitive areas has earned them the trust of residents, they have detailed knowledge of the area, and have more funding. However, peacebuilding organizations have the expertise on conflict prevention, and thus should collaborate with development organizations. 3) Relationships with police will impact the effectiveness of intervention. 4) CSOs should create operational prevention networks with CSOs and build relationships with actors in the community in order to increase their power to lobby political authorities during crises, increase resources for prevention, and to scale up the impact of their activities to affect a wider area.
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doi:10.7282/T36972XN
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ETD doctoral
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Vaitla
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Srinivas
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2011-04-04 16:48:01
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Srinivas Vaitla
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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