Some results on ethnic conflicts based on evolutionary game simulation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2014.03.049zbMATH Open1402.91097arXiv1405.3614OpenAlexW2088269956MaRDI QIDQ1782855FDOQ1782855

Authors: Jun Qin, Yunfei Yi, Hongrun Wu, Yuhang Liu, Xiaonian Tong, Bojin Zheng 

Publication date: 20 September 2018

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The force of the ethnic separatism, essentially origining from negative effect of ethnic identity, is damaging the stability and harmony of multiethnic countries. In order to eliminate the foundation of the ethnic separatism and set up a harmonious ethnic relationship, some scholars have proposed a viewpoint: ethnic harmony could be promoted by popularizing civic identity. However, this viewpoint is discussed only from a philosophical prospective and still lack supports of scientific evidences. Because ethic group and ethnic identity are products of evolution and ethnic identity is the parochialism strategy under the perspective of game theory, this paper proposes an evolutionary game simulation model to study the relationship between civic identity and ethnic conflict based on evolutionary game theory. The simulation results indicate that: 1) the ratio of individuals with civic identity has a positive association with the frequency of ethnic conflicts; 2) ethnic conflict will not die out by killing all ethnic members once for all, and it also cannot be reduced by a forcible pressure, i.e., increasing the ratio of individuals with civic identity; 3) the average frequencies of conflicts can stay in a low level by promoting civic identity periodically and persistently.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3614

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zbMATH Keywords

ethnic conflictcivic identityethnic identityevolutionary game simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Applications of game theory (91A80) Evolutionary games (91A22)

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• Preference evolution and reciprocity

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