Question

How did the Belgians resolve the ethnic conflict?

Answer 1

Hint: Regional differences and cultural diversities caused the conflict. Diverse population is also a main reason for such conflicts. Constitutional methods became the road to solve the conflict.

Complete Answer:
Belgium ethnic conflict was due to:
- Minority french speaking community but they are powerful and rich.
- Dutch community more in no. But less opportunities as compared to french.
- Social disparity between the two is also a main cause.
- Economically and politically dutch were more inferior than french.
- The dutch speaking community was called Flanders and french speaking was called wallonia.
- For many years, Flanders want to separate themselves from Belgium and form another state of their own.
- Though Belgium is a compact state, it still failed to communicate with the ethnic groups.

How was it resolved?
- Changes in government. In terms of equality in no. Of ministers of dutch and french.
- Devolution of power from central govt to state govt.
- Brussels to have given separate govt.called community govt.
- In Brussels people elected the govt. Directly.
- The Community Govt has the power relating to education,culture,language.

Note: Belgium bordered by the Netherlands in the north,Germany in the east,and Luxembourg.
It is the 6th most densely populated country in Europe.
Its official languages are dutch,french,German
It is still divided into Flanders in north,Wallonia in south Brussels the capital.