To begin with, unequal power and oppression had resulted in prejudice and long-standing conflict between groups. Example of the earliest conflict that occurs is a long term conflict according to Horowitz (1985) which is violent towards the ethnic minority groups where it has taken the lives of more than 10 million people. According to Fisher (1994), ethnic cleansing and genocide are some of the example of the intergroup conflict that are expressed violently and overtly for example ‘ethnic cleansing’ towards the Rohingya people where attempt is made to destroy the members of that social group. Conflict manifest itself in the form of prejudice, discrimination and stereotype. It is crucial to understand the history of the relations between different
