Can there be a peaceful end to nation states and sectarianism?

Or could it be that nation-building is a programme imposed by European colonialism? Can the non-Western world produce a demographic-political entity like the 'nation'? .... See Saeed, H. Al-Ta'ifiyya al-Siyasiyya IĦ al-'Iraq inkaran wa i'tLUăIDQ (Political Sectarianism in Iraq: Denial and Recognition), a paper presented at. read more

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Challenges to the nation-state framework and management of diversity in an environment of transforming boundaries and borders. The dynamics of sectarianism and sectarianisation. Interventions and influences of transnational political or religious networks, mass migration and diaspora movements on ethno-religious mobilisation. read more

Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group. Common examples are denominations of a religion, ethnic identity, class, or region for citizens of a state and factions of a political movement. read more