Answer:Since, few conflict are just about ethnicity. They are fueled by other divisions such as:skin color, religious affiliation, regional ties,Socio-economic status.
2. Geographical proximity of different groups.
3. Outside interference play on the ethnic differences.
4. Prejudice/hatred sets the stage for conflicts.
5. Leaders use ethnic conflict to promote their own objectives.-Leaders count on emotional intensity and loyalty such as in Rwanda that ethnic violence claimed as many as 800,000 lives in 1994. -More than ¾ of Rwanda's Tutsi population were killed.