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 … reaction to the violence and politicization, the religious elites founded an interreligious organization in the 1990s, and were …

incompatibilities, several forms of non-state religious violence) and ambivalence (inter-religious networks, religious peace initiatives …) of religion vis-à-vis violence. In 22 of the 48 sub-Saharan countries, religion plays a substantial role in violence, and … different religious aspects of violence. …

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 …

the topics of patri-otism, peace and good governance related to the World Cup qualification of both national teams …

been transformed into a battleground for social violence — that is, on the belief that an alarming “crime wave” is …

level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated “context approach” that … with a moderate increase in internal violence in Venezuela are subsequently analyzed, in the second part of the paper, from …, and corruption. On the other hand, oil has triggered violence—primarily through socioeconomic causal mechanisms (central …

explores the methodological challenge of an alternative approach to Central American violence(s). How can we collect … qualitative data that help address the social construction of (in)security? The research project “Public Spaces and Violence in …-discourses on violence? Why is it crucial to keep a research diary? What is a “failed” or a “good” interview? This article argues …

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the … the key contextual conditions responsible for violence, the results underline the basic relevance of cultural cleavages …