Today's word, plus 29 more.
Conflict
Ethnic tensions.
Reduces complex political, economic, and resource-based dynamics to identity alone. It can obscure the structural drivers of conflict, including competition over land, governance failures, and access to resources.
“The region is experiencing ethnic tensions.”
“The region is experiencing tensions linked to land disputes. / The region is experiencing tensions over resource competition and political exclusion.”
Conflict (6)
Clear filter ✕Conflict zone
It flattens complex political, geographic, ethnic, religious, or security crises into a generic image of instability, often without adequate contextualisation or explanation.
Be specific about the nature and location of the dispute
Electoral violence
Reduces an election to its most dramatic incidents rather than describing the broader process. Used loosely, it makes violence sound like the defining feature of an entire election.
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