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. …

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 …

In European history, war has played a major role in state‐building and the state monopoly on violence. But war is a … very specific form of organized political violence, and it is decreasing on a global scale. Other patterns of armed … violence now dominate, ones that seem to undermine state‐building, thus preventing the replication of European experiences. As …

Postwar societies are high-risk contexts for youth violence. Nevertheless, not all postwar societies are equally … violence in as well as across the case studies. …

Crime, violence, and insecurity are perceived as society’s biggest problems in contemporary Costa Rica. This degree of …

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 …

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 …