This paper analyzes the role of religion with regard to the violence experienced during the past 20 years in Côte d …'Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and … successful in preventing a religious war. -- religion ; violence ; peace ; conflict ; Côte d'Ivoire …

impact of reducing the extraordinary levels of violence in the country. The hypothesis put forward is that the EU’s approach … to the issue of violence has been unsuccessful because it does not match the complexity of the problem encountered. As an … violence. It shows that violence is one of the results of an incoherent process of self‐organisation which marks Honduras and …

market ; oligopoly of violence ; international intervention ; disarmament …

: the excluded elites are frequently tempted to use violence to come back into the "dining room" - and the excluding … Säuberungen produzieren Kosten: ausgeschlossene Eliten sind oft geneigt, Gewalt anzuwenden, um ins "Speisezimmer" zurückzugelangen …

The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand … constructing youth violence and juvenile delinquency. Also, each country has its own manner of reaction to those problems. In El … protect citizens against that threat. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where the social discourse on youth violence is less …

auch niedrigschwellige Gewalt gefördert; dies vor allem über sozioökonomische Kausalmechanismen (Verfall der Erdölpreise … Delegitimierung der politischen Elite geführt. Ein weiterer zentraler Befund ist, dass der konkrete Einfluss des Erdöls auf Gewalt je … nach spezifischer Form der Gewalt deutlich zu variieren scheint. (GIGA) …