Donald L. Horowitz (born 1939) is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of

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at Duke Law School and

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in Durham,

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, United States. He earned his

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from

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in 1968 and also holds degrees from

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. He is a specialist in the study of

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and author of the books ''Ethnic Groups in Conflict'' (University of California Press, 1985), ''A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society'' (University of California Press, 1991), ''The Deadly Ethnic Riot'' (University of California Press, 2001) and ''Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia'' (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Writing about ''Ethnic Groups in Conflict'', political scientist Ashutosh Varshney states that it "was a seminal text", and that: "For the first time in scholarly history, a book on ethnic conflict covered a whole variety of topics, ranging from concepts and definitions to those spheres of institutional politics (party politics, military politics, affirmative action) in which the power of ethnicity had become obvious and could no longer be ignored". Horowitz has acted as a consultant on the problems of divided societies and on policies to reduce ethnic conflict in locations including

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and

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. In 2006, he was appointed to Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion.

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Donald Horowitz's official homepage at Duke University
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