Peacock (anthropology and comparative literature, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Thornton (political science, Trinity College), and Inman (a freelance academic editor and independent historian) present work on sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict around the world that was conducted under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation's New Century Scholars Program. Topics addressed by an international group of contributors include social identity, prejudice, and violence in Western Europe; national and ethnic identities and violence in Crimea; European attitudes towards immigrants; Tibetan identity in contemporary China; cross-cutting identities in Singapore; sectarian violence and the Chinese state; and a Pakistani perspective on relations between Islam and the West. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)