Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Kumar Rupesinghe and Valery A. Tishkov -- 1 Governance and con.ict resolution in multi-ethnic societies -- Kumar Rupesinghe -- 2 Ethnic conflict in the Horn of Africa: Myth and reality -- Hizkias Assefa -- 3 Ethnic conflicts in the context of social science theories -- Valery A. Tishkov -- 4 Settlement of ethnic conflicts in post-Soviet society -- Emil Payin -- 5 Dynamics of the Moldova- Trans-Dniester ethnic conflict (late 1980s to early 1990s) -- Airat R. Aklaev -- 6 Ethnic conflict in the Osh region in summer 1990: Reasons and lessons -- Abilabek Asankanov -- 7 From centre-periphery conflict to the making of new nationality policy in an independent state: Estonia -- Klara Hallik -- 8 Conflict management in the former USSR and world experience -- Victor A. Kremenyuk -- 9 The dissolution of multi-ethnic states: The case of Yugoslavia -- Silvo Devetak -- 10 Ethnic conflict, federalism, and democracy in India -- S.D. Muni -- 11 An intractable conflict? Northern Ireland: A need for pragmatism -- John Darby -- 12 Political autonomy and conflict resolution: The Basque case -- José Manuel Castells and Gurutz Jauregui -- 13 Ethnic and racial groups in the USA: Conflict and cooperation -- Mary C. Waters -- 14 Ethnic conflicts and minority protection: Roles for the international community -- Asbjørn Eide -- 15 The right to autonomy: Chimera or solution? -- Hurst Hannum -- Contributors.