... period. In 1992 alone, there were over 300 deaths due to political violence in Ireland (Finn1991,202). However, Irish case is totally different from other ethnic based conflicts within the countries. There is a Catholic and a Protestant history of Northern Ireland, in which the Catholics were treated brutally by the British and protestants by Catholics. After a long time of ... strategic and military variables. (Picard, 1996,190) In the formation of this violence, actually three phenomena are significant. First is Lebanese Shi"a as a group were transformed from an underdeveloped to a soc...

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