What Are The Key Terms That Affect A Student's Understanding Of Ethnic Conflict?

Terminology is the basis of learning any subject. Nouns of the subject tell the student who is affected or involved, the places in the world that are affected and what these people and places are affected by. Terms and associated words explain what the situation is and allow the student to understand the subject more. In the subject of ethnic conflict, there are foundational terms that that are necessary to the understanding of it. In attempts to understand ethnic conflict through foundational and key terms, a categorization system of these following selected terms has been made, this system is based on how each term explains how a community is formed and the different concepts that affect a student’s understanding of the conflict ethnic

Diaspora groups do not want territorial rights in a foreign countries but want access and participation in the following areas: voting, office holding, and access to justice and nondiscriminatory access to education, employment, housing, business opportunities, and public services. Homelands societies are defined as “ethnic groups that are longtime occupants of a particular territory and therefore claim an exclusive as well as a moral right to rule it.” Claims to a territory are justified by “historical, cultural and archaeological

Lemkin also made a point to divide the parts of genocide, stating: “[g]enocide has two phases: one, destruction of national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor.” Lemkin is an important historical figure because of this all inclusive creation of a name and definition for ethnic cleansing crimes. A term like genocide is a start to understanding the many facets included in the crimes. For example, according to 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group the conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly