TY - BOOK AU - Slocum-Bradley, Nikki TI - Promoting conflict or peace through identity SN - 9780754672449 (hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 305.09 PY - 2008/// CY - Aldershot, England PB - Ashgate KW - Group identity KW - Social conflict KW - National characteristics KW - Ethnic conflict KW - Peace N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : borders of the mind / Nikki Slocum-Bradley -- The making of nations in Belgium and Western Europe in historical perspective (fifteenth-twentieth century) : national ideology, ethnicity, language and politics / Sébastien Dubois -- Identity construction and citizenship conflicts in central Nigeria / Ogoh Alubo -- The formation of national identity in Israel/Palestine : the construction of spatial knowledge and contested territorial narratives / David Newman -- Borders of/on the mind, borders in the jungle : Islamic insurgency and ethno-religious irredentism in southern Thailand / David Camroux and Don Pathan -- The positioning diamond : conceptualizing identity constructions at the U.S.-Mexico border / Nikki Slocum-Bradley -- Identity construction in the EU, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR : opportunities for peace and conflict / Francesco Duina -- Religion and regional planning : the case of the emerging Shi'a region / Fathali M. Moghaddam -- Custom and identity : reflections on and representations of violence in Melanesia / Anne Brown -- Crossing mental borders : constructing a laissez-passer for peace / Nikki Slocum-Bradley ER -