Nations, Nationalism and TERRORISM

Disputes, which are represented by conlfict, crash, war or etc., stems from the disagreement on idelolgy, ethnicity, religions, resources, and even social values. Since the nation States were established during the mod-ern area, confrontations and conflicts have existed among the nation actors. In addition, disputes due to the emergence of ethnic separtism supported by the minorities in the nation States have transformed into serious armed conflicts. Armed confrontaions and terrorism continued to arise in manuy areas in conflict. Thus, dam-ages of human lives and properties have increased and expanded since then. Considering the major conflicts in 1990s, armed disputes between Israel and Palestine, diputes on border-lines between Iraq and Kuwait, Bosnian War, Chechen War, and a New Cold War around Afghanistan can be suggested as examples. These types of disputes and armed conflicts are reported frequently by the media, and they draw attention from the international society as well. Mostly, these disputes and armed conflicts occurred in the Eastern Europe and the Middle East. However, there are far more ongoing disputes which are relatively unknown to outside around the world, and some of them have come to a conclusion recently. With the advent of the New Millennuim, which brought a positive prospect of weakening Nationalism, most of disputes and armed conflicts were predicted to be terminated. On the contrary to the prospect, nationalism still plays the most important role as a center of ideologies that influence the world and the international socie-ty. Ideological conflicts between the right and the left ceased to exist in the late 20th century, thus the needs backgrounded by the nationalism which were oppressed during the cold war have expressed throughout the world. These phenomena are remarkable in the region once a part of the Soviet Union. Ethinc conflicts in this region result from the oppression and discrimination against the ethnic minorities by the ethnic majorities or the nation States. In general, the ethnic majorities or the the nation States have the superior power or militray force to the minorities. As a result, the oppression against the minorities and the resistance against the majori-ties or the nation States have become in confrontation. Chechen war is a typical example of this conflict. Even though Northern Ireland has a diffirent historical backgrounds, the armed conflicts in Northern Ireland are simi-lar cases to this type of conflicts. What is important is to identify the root casue of taking violent methods to resolve the ethnic conflicts, and the effort to find a peaceful resolution in dealing with the armed conflicts should be considered and implemented. It is never too much to emphasize that the nature of ethnicity and na-tionalism, which cannot be resloved by the force.