Peace settlements can increase rather than reduce physical segregation barriers
Evidence
In the aftermath of the 1998 peace settlement, the number of peace walls dividing Catholic and Protestant working-class communities increased substantially. These walls consolidated territorial enclosure and were frequently the site of recurring low-level violence between youths on either side of the communal divide. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2285
Categorization
- SEED: A counterintuitive data point for an essay on how threat reduction triggers new boundary-hardening and solidarity reassertion rather than decay.
- XREF: connects to: Extreme segregation can emerge without anyone desiring segregation — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 824; European internal racial mixing coexists with hardened external border barricades — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 814; Segregation sustains conflict by institutionalizing mutual ignorance and suspicion — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 104 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Extreme segregation can emerge without anyone desiring segregation
#corroborates(0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 824 - European internal racial mixing coexists with hardened external border barricades
#qualifies(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 814 - Institutionalized space appropriation produces territorially bounded social solidarity
#corroborates(0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1395 - Segregation sustains conflict by institutionalizing mutual ignorance and suspicion
#expands(0.72) — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 104