Management and Socio-Humanities COMMON FOUNDATION AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INTER- ETHNIC AND INTER-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS

Abstract: Both the ethnic and the religious conflicts are rooted in the profoundness of the cultural values system. The ethnic conflict is the result of engaging identity ideologies so as to legitimate an ethnic group, since nation-state and ethnicity are two concepts neither similar nor congruent. Moreover, a pertinent limiting, performed by theorists/specialists, is contradicted by the normative definition of terms, through the agency of laws, rules, and norms. The religious conflict is the result of the religious disputes. Differently from the previous concept, the terminological limiting in the field of religious conflict is theoretically and normatively stable. In spite of the fact that both types of conflicts can manifest together, the religious conflicts are shaped in a more acute form of confrontation, because their bases are related to an irrational reference