Ethnic Conflict and the “Generosity Moment”

Issue Date January 1998
Volume 9
Issue 1
Page Numbers 140-153
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About the Author

Robert Hislope, assistant professor of political science at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, received his doctorate from Ohio State University in 1995. His research focuses on the areas of ethnic politics, the politics of the former Yugoslavia, and evolutionary theory.

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