Tribal conflicts within states
Name(s):
Internal conflict due to tribalism
Tribal conflict with states
National instability due to tribalism
Disruption of development by tribal warfare
Clan warfare
Tribal friction
Nature
Warfare between different tribal groups, usually within the same 'national' boundary, causes disruption and disunity in the nation. Tribal warfare and conflict have been known to disrupt rural development programmes. This factor comes into play particularly when an extensive development programme takes in several ethnic groups. Since rural development programmes attract strangers into otherwise closely-knit homogenous rural communities, conflicts in morals, manners and of personality often create potentially explosive situations which require the talents of competent social workers to resolve.
Incidence
Tribal warfare has been recently reported in the Philippines, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, and South Africa. According to a 1993 report, nearly 8,000 Zulu tribesmen of the Kwazulu-Natal region in South Africa have been killed as a result of tribal warfare since 1985. Since its independence, clan fighting and killing have erupted periodically between Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi, as in 1969, 1972 (around 300,000 dead), 1988, 1993 and 1994, when it is estimated that at least 100,000 were killed and 700,000 displaced to refugee camps in Rwanda, Tanzania or Zaire.
Aggravates
Revenge [in 2 loops]
Civil war [in 2 loops]
Militarism [in 16 loops]
Social fragmentation [in 2 loops]
Forced separation of parents and children [in 1 loop]
Aggravated by
Reduced by
Strategy(ies)
Type
(D) Detailed problems