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Measuring Geopolitical Power in India: A Review of the National Security Index (NSI)
Hwang, Karl - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010
This review examines how India perceives its own rise to power by undertaking a detailed analysis of the Indian National Security Index (NSI) for the period from 2003 to 2008. Like other power formulas, the NSI includes various indicators of power, though it is uniquely Indian in that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741029
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Structural Stability: On the Prerequisites of Nonviolent Conflict Management
Mehler, Andreas; Engel, Ulf; Giesbert, Lena; Kuhlmann, Jenny - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008
The concept of “structural stability” has been gaining prominence in development policy circles. In the EU’s and the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s (OECD DAC) understanding, it describes the ability of societies to handle intra-societal conflict without resorting to violence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688744
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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
incompatibilities, several forms of non-state religious violence) and ambivalence (inter-religious networks, religious peace initiatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003132
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324251
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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 … rationally acting religious elites to be active for peace. It is their relationships to the government, other religious elites …, and believers that can motivate them to call for peace. However, they will do so only if they anticipate—based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509930
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Political Discourse in Football Coverage – The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Mehler, Andreas - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006
the topics of patri-otism, peace and good governance related to the World Cup qualification of both national teams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688712