Konflik Minoritas di Timur Tengah: Studi Kasus Konflik Etnis Kurdi

Abstract

This paper attempts to explain the roots of the Irak and Syria Kurdish ethnic conflict by using the analysis of the Broken Windows theory. The theory that was conceived by a criminologist named George L. Kelling and Cathrine M. Coles is trying to explain something small, if not addressed, it will cause something big. An epidemic will spread depending on the community and the environment. Just like what happened with the Kurds in the Middle East. This group received unfair treatment by the local regime, so the epidemic of freedom and having its own territory spread. A wave of resistance continues to be launched, ranging from the small to the large. Finally, something small can become a big issue, for example Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria have trained troops and they use the chaotic environment to conduct a referendum on autonomous regions. It means something small (the Kurdish Ethnic resistance movement) that is not given much attention, then presents something big (like Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria supported by the US to hold a referendum).