THE COMPONENTS OF THE IDENTITY CLASH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MULTICULTURALISM

• Main Author: Sebastian Sârbu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Romanian Scientists Publishing House 2015-06-01
• Series: Annals: Series on Military Sciences
• Subjects: identity clash; power relations; intercultural dialogue; inter-ethnic conflict; inter-religious conflict; fundamentalism; extremism; secessionism; globalism; axiology; multiculturalism; disparities; geo-economic zones; regionalism; the new economic geography; the Ricardian vision
• Online Access: http://www.aos.ro/wp-content/anale/MTVol7Nr1Art.5.pdf

In this paper a conceptual analysis is developed, encompassing a rather large scientific range, of the identity clashes and its components and not in the least it is introduced the multiculturalism and its role as a peace-making factor and a solution provider. The conflicts between identities are hierarchically classified by the time honoured scientific instruments and criteria, commencing from the most serious and legitimate sources in this field. The scientific approach is built in a systematic multi-disciplinary attempt, meant to identify both the favouring inner causes of the identity clash, and the real context of their ways of making manifest. The particular and axiological elements are supplemented with historical, geopolitical and sociologic landmarks, in their dynamical nature. The independence of the identity clash actuality is therefore tackled from the angle of globalization and democracy-based changing processes in the life of the society, of a new economic geography of the states and the states’ need of security against the grand backdrop of vanishing of the economic walls between nations.