Intimate Violence and Ethnic Diversity

Abstract

This book concludes with a discussion of the argument’s broader implications, in particular for the relationship between ethnic diversity and violence and how to prevent pogroms. The 1941 pogroms in Poland cannot be reduced to non-Jewish reaction to Jewish cultural difference because they did not occur where visible differences between non-Jews and Jews were greatest. Our recommendations for preventing pogroms focus less on institutional solutions, which can exacerbate rather than diminish such violence, than on increasing solidarity between groups. Potential strategies include multi-ethnic political parties and, in the longer term, redefining the boundaries of “the people” in ways that better incorporate minority groups.