Summary of Chaim Kaufmann's “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Wars”.

The basic idea of this article is that ethnic civil wars
cannot be stopped in the way that most people try to stop them.  However, the people who
say that they cannot be stopped at all are wrong
too.

People typically try to stop ethnic civil wars by
proposing various types of power sharing agreements.  They urge the sides to talk and
learn to get along.  Kaufmann says this is impossible.

What
he says is that you need to separate the sides into their own enclaves.  The sides need
to not come in contact and they need to be able to defend themselves from any
attacks.

Once this happens, there will be fewer reasons to
fight and peace can be achieved.