"THE EXPLOSION OF communal violence is the paramount issue facing the human rights movement today. And containing the abuses committed in the name of ethnic or religious groups will be our foremost challenge for years to come." This is the blunt...

Ethnic violence (also known as ethnic terrorism or ethnically-motivated terrorism) refers to violence that is predominantly framed rhetorically by causes and issues related to ethnic hatred, though ethnic violence is more commonly related to political...

Ethnic violence in China With a population of 1.3 billion people, China is the world's largest country. It is not only huge, but deeply divided among 56 officially recognized ethnic groups. These stark demographic realities, combined with China's rapid economic expansion and the...

In his Dec. 23 op-ed column "On a Fault-Finding Mission," Richard Harwood makes a reasonable attempt to balance the blame directed at the media for all the world's ills. Unfortunately, while attempting to play down the significance of mass communications in fomenting civil disorder...

Thousands of refugees fled western Kenya Saturday on buses escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, burnt out vehicles and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.Behind them, thousands more huddled...