Abstract:
In terms of types, the ethnic relation between the Malian government and Tuaregs is conflicting, which is manifested in the relationship between Tuaregs and Malian state as dominated by violent rebellions, the competing relationships among ethnicities and separatist nationalist narratives. The contradiction between the construction of the Malian nation state and the development of the Tuareg group is the decisive factor affecting the conflicting ethnic political relations between the Malian government and Tuaregs, and tribal identity, hierarchy, racism and marginalization are the concentrated expressions of the analysis of its origins. The conflicting ethnic political relations between the Malian government and Tuaregs changed the socioeconomic order of the Tuareg tribes, and leads to fragmentation of the social power and dispersal of interest in the North as well as threatening the political stability of the Malian state and regional security.
