Separatist violence arises when cultural and geographic divisions coincide

Evidence

Deep divisions within a country can lead to massive violence or threaten the country’s existence. This latter threat and movements for autonomy or separation are most likely to arise when cultural differences coincide with differences in geographic location. If culture and geography do not coincide, they may be made to coincide through either genocide or forced migration. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 374 (#expands, via linked claim)

Within-state fault line conflicts may also involve groups which are geographically intermixed, in which case continually tense relations erupt into violence from time to time, as with Hindus and Muslims in India and Muslims and Chinese in Malaysia, or full-scale fighting may occur, particularly when new states and their boundaries are being determined, and produce brutal efforts to separate peoples by force. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 698 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ethnic and religious fragmentation weakly predict civil war; feasibility of insurgency does — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809; The world’s ethnic diversity and natural resource wealth coincide geographically with extractive violence — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1376; Separatist movements arise when cultural differences align with geographic boundaries — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 374 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Separatist movements arise when cultural differences align with geographic boundaries #expands (0.97) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 374
• Geographically intermixed groups within states erupt into repeated communal violence #complicates (0.74) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 698