It can also mobilize the pre-existing diasporic organizations for “homeland”-related activism.

Such conflict deterritorialization can in its turn trigger diasporization processes elsewhere. In other words, ideas, attitudes and ethnicized narratives of such conflicts can become detached from a certain geographical location and settle in the transnational space of interactions. I argue that the ethnicized armed conflict in the “homeland” can become deterritorialized. I focus on a specific case of Ukrainian-Russian conflict and Ukrainian, Russian and conflict-generated diasporic groups in Sweden. In this dissertation, I develop theoretical conceptualization of the intersection of armed conflict in the “homeland” and diaspora. Less research has been done on the effects the ethnicized armed conflict in the “homeland” can have on diasporic communities. Diasporas in this perspective are usually considered to be either “peace-makers” or “peace-wreckers”.

While direct actors mostly participate in the fighting itself, indirect ones can involve transnational advocacy organizations and diasporic groups. Mostly the focus lies on the multiple ways these direct and indirect actors affect the processes and outcomes of such conflicts.

2020 (English) Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) Abstract Įthnicized armed conflicts are usually studied in their territorial dimension and analyzed through the patterns of involvement of different direct and indirect actors.

Armed conflict definition sociology