How Diversity Affects Stability: A Look at relations Between People and Its impact on The stability of Nations
Advisor(s)
Patrick Kearney; Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Discipline
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Start Date
21-4-2021 8:50 AM
End Date
21-4-2021 9:05 AM
Abstract
A multitude of literature states that conflicts and disagreements over the utilization of resources primarily occur in areas where various cultures and ethnicities collide. To see whether or not a country’s diversity directly affects its stability, three things needed to be found: The country’s ethnic diversity, the country’s cultural diversity (which includes linguistic diversity), and the country’s stability. Three data sets in particular proved most useful. The first being the Fragile States Index takes many different things into account then rates the countries based on their respective instability. The second: the Ethnic Fractionalization Index gives the probability that two people randomly meeting will have the same ethnicity. The Cultural Fractionalization Index being data set number 3, provides the probability that two randomly meeting people will have the same culture (language included). The project’s main goal was to construct a model on how stability in countries is affected by the relative diversity of that country.
How Diversity Affects Stability: A Look at relations Between People and Its impact on The stability of Nations
A multitude of literature states that conflicts and disagreements over the utilization of resources primarily occur in areas where various cultures and ethnicities collide. To see whether or not a country’s diversity directly affects its stability, three things needed to be found: The country’s ethnic diversity, the country’s cultural diversity (which includes linguistic diversity), and the country’s stability. Three data sets in particular proved most useful. The first being the Fragile States Index takes many different things into account then rates the countries based on their respective instability. The second: the Ethnic Fractionalization Index gives the probability that two people randomly meeting will have the same ethnicity. The Cultural Fractionalization Index being data set number 3, provides the probability that two randomly meeting people will have the same culture (language included). The project’s main goal was to construct a model on how stability in countries is affected by the relative diversity of that country.