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Q Imagine a country where religious factions inside a nation want to have their own separate homeland. The government refuses, claiming that the territory in question, which commands the nation’s only source of clean water, is vital to security. Is violence inevitable?

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Modern nation-states can be most aptly described as encompassing diversity and heterogeneity rather than uniformity or homogeneity. Unity in diversity is perhaps the order of the day and the political authorities of different countries do all that they can in order to strengthen the social fabric by keeping fissiparous tendencies at bay. However, it would be quite naïve to assume that the needs of all communities are equally catered to with no possibility for conflict.