title: Understanding Ethnic Conflict
author: Raymond Taras
description: "Understanding Ethnic Conflict" provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict's internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country's ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory and application in "Understanding Ethnic Conflict" facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world's response to them.
zlib_text: Freedom Fighters of Trelandar
  
  A Tale of Adventure in the Second Dark Age
  
  Book Nine of the Warlady Series
  
  By Jerome B. Bigge
  
  Chapter Twenty Nine
  
        "It was an act of `desperation' upon Darlanis' part," I said to Jon as he read over what I'd written so long ago here for Lor- raine. Technically there had never been any doubt of the fact as such that Darlanis was guilty of allowing Tara to do things that were in violation of the caste codes, the rules of warfare here. Darlanis was losing the war with Trelandar, and she knew it too. 
  
        "So she challenged your sister to a duel, killed her, and in that way WON what she could not win any other way," Jon smiled in reply, his dark eyes holding mine as I nodded thoughtfully back. 
  
        "Paula was a proud woman, perhaps too `proud'," I replied. 
  
        "She could have challenged you..." Jon pointed out to me. 
  
        "I wasn't a Warrioress," I smiled, remembering it all here. 
  
        "I keep remembering what Lorraine once said," he 