Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities

<p> Conflicts between different racial ethnic national and other social groups are becoming more and more salient. One of the main sources of these internal conflicts is social and economic inequality in particular the increasing disparities between majority and minority groups. Even societies that had been successful in dealing with external conflicts and making the transition from war to peace have realized that this does not automatically resolve internal conflicts. On the contrary the resolution of external conflicts may even sharpen the internal ones. This volume a joint publication of the University of Haifa and the International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) at the University of Hamburg addresses questions of how to deal with internal issues of social inequality and cultural diversity and at the same time how to build a shared civility among their different national ethnic religious and social groups.</p>