How Enemies Are Made

Günther Schlee was a Professor at Bielefeld until 1999. He currently is the director of the section Integration and Conflict at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, focusing on Africa, Central Asia, and Europe. His publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (International African Institute, 1989), How Enemies are Made (Berghahn, 2008), Rendille Proverbs in their Social and legal Context (with Karaba Sahado) and Boran Proverbs in their Cultural Context (with Abdullahi Shongolo) (both Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe).

• PART I: INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Why we Need a New Conflict TheoryChapter 2. The QuestionChapter 3. How this Volume is OrganisedPART II: THEORETICAL FRAMEChapter 4. A Decision Theory of IdentificationChapter 5. The Necessity for Strategies of Inclusion and ExclusionChapter 6. The Conceptual Instruments of Exclusion and Inclusion: Social Categories and their Overlapping RelationsChapter 7. On the Sociologisation of Economics and the Economisation of SociologyChapter 8. Markets of Violence and the Freedom of ChoiceChapter 9. Ethnicity Emblems, Diacritical Features, Identity Markers – Some East African ExamplesChapter 10. Purity and Power in Islamic and Non-Islamic Societies and the Spectre of FundamentalismChapter 11. Language and EthnicityPART III: PRACTICAL FRAMEChapter 12. Conflict Resolution: the Experience with the Somali Peace ProcessChapter 13. On Methods: How to be a Conflict AnalystChapter 14. An Update from 2007: Reconsidering the Peace ProcessList of AcronymsReferencesIndex

“This is certainly a significant text, and would be of interest to most scholars studying conflict theory…[it] represents an interesting discussion of conflict resolution and would be most beneficial to those seeking an alternate to traditional conflict analysis. While the author does not offer his own theory, he does successfully lay the groundwork for future conflict analysts to develop their own perspectives.”  ·  The Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie