Re-Thinking Racial Conflict in an Era of Global Terror

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John Stone

Boston University - College of Arts and Sciences

Polly S. Rizova

Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management

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Date Written: January 31, 2007

Abstract

At the end of April 2004, the first author of this article gave a talk entitled Racial Conflict Revisited, as the Inaugural Public Lecture of the Racist Futures programme based in the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds. In early July 2005, three young men caught a train from Leeds to London, where they were joined by a collaborator, and rapidly became the prime suspects in the 7/7 suicide bombings of the London underground and bus system. What, if anything, does the latter event tell us about the evolving pattern of conflict in the twenty first century? In this analysis we seek to explore the complexities of ethnic and racial divisions in the contemporary global environment, looking backwards to the forces unleashed by the end of the Cold War, and forward to the probable challenges of the next two decades, that will undoubtedly be linked to the so-called “War on Terror”.

Keywords: globalization, racial conflict, migration, transnationalism, genocide, justice

Suggested Citation

Stone, John and Rizova, Polly S., Re-Thinking Racial Conflict in an Era of Global Terror (January 31, 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2139681 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2139681

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