Ethnic Conflict and Rohingya Crisis: Towards the Development of a New Integrative Approach

Both Marxism and modernism have assumed the non-existence of ethnic conflict stipulated by the establishment of communism and globalization. However, communism has not been established yet and the concepts like melting pot, amalgamation and glocalization have become very popular as the impact of the present thriving state of globalization. Instead of being extinct, the world is now increasingly being inflicted by ethnic conflict and racism. Still, the existence of ethnic conflict is a part of our reality and the Rohingya refugee crisis is the burning example now. Hence, theoretical analyses are crucial to examine these complicated circumstances. To intensely explore and explain Rohingya crisis, several theories of ethnicity (e.g. primordialism, constructivism, Instrumentalism) have been critically discussed in this study. However, adequate and significant theories that can provide the proper explanation of ethnic conflict are yet to be constructed. This paper is an initiative to introduce a new integrative approach and prescribes a solution of ethnic conflict.