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Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering

Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either accommodating (“consociationalists”) or denying (“integrationists”) ethnicity in … mostly inconclusive. The following questions remain open: a) Is politicized ethnicity really a conflict risk? b) What impact … conflict risks? …

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Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa

Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

Since the sweeping (re)introduction of multiparty systems in the early 1990s almost all sub-Saharan countries have introduced bans on ethnic or – in more general terms – particularistic parties. Such party bans have been neglected in research, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis...

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Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis

Vuellers, Johannes - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

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 as a social force that is mobilizable by...

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Religious Peace Activism—The Rational Element of Religious Elites’ Decision-making Processes Revisiting the Oil-Violence Link in the Niger Delta

Juan, Alexander De; Vüllers, Johannes - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

Religious elites are active for peace in many violent conflicts. Normative explanations often do not suffice to explain their engagement. In this paper we draw on the findings of social-movement research to identify the factors that induce rationally acting religious elites to be active for...

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Cutting Bread or Cutting Throats? – Findings from a New Database on Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias; Strüver, Georg; Vüllers, Johannes - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

, social science research has inadequately addressed the question of how and to what extent religion matters for conflict in … Africa. This paper presents an innovative data inventory on religion and violent conflict in all sub-Saharan countries for … for in conflict in Africa. Moreover, results show the multidimensionality (e.g. armed conflicts with religious …

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Ethnicity, Voter Alignment and Political Party Affiliation – an African Case: Zambia

Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

Conventional wisdom holds that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behav-iour and party affiliation in … fallacy. The evidence based on individual data from an opinion survey in Zambia suggests that ethnicity matters for voter … affiliation and ethnicity – but that does not prove that they do not affiliate along ethnic lines. …

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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic consolidation, this article argues that problems can only be properly addressed on the basis of a differentiated typology of party systems. Contradictory research results do not pose...

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The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited

Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

Recent research on political parties and ethnicity has challenged the conventional wisdom about ethnicity as the major … ethnicity, still provides heuristically the best foundation for the explanation of party formation and voting behaviour in … Africa. It points out that inconclusive and contradicting research results about the salience of ethnicity can be attributed …

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Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya

Elischer, Sebastian - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya’s political parties and its party system … since 1992. Drawing on a constructivist conception of ethnicity, it uses a framework of comparison derived from Donald …

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Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010

Koos, Carlo; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

We employ a two-tier spatiotemporal analysis to investigate whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa …. The macrolevel analysis suggests that . compared to the baseline conflict risk . uranium ventures increase the risk of … intrastate conflict by 10 percent. However, we find ethnic exclusion to be a much better predictor of armed conflict than uranium …

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