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incompatibilities, several forms of non-state religious violence) and ambivalence (inter-religious networks, religious peace initiatives …
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successful in preventing a religious war. …
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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 …
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the topics of patri-otism, peace and good governance related to the World Cup qualification of both national teams …
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In European history, war has played a major role in state‐building and the state monopoly on violence. But war is a … these states. Evidence from Latin American history shows that the specific patterns of the termination of both war and … critical juncture for state‐building. While military victories in war, the subordination of competing armed actors and the …
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Since 1990 the banning of ethnic and other identity-based parties has become the norm in sub-Saharan Africa. This article focuses on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as three East African countries that have opted for different ways of dealing with such parties. Using case studies, it traces the...
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for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different …
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This paper argues that the study of the demand for financial services in developing countries leaves out part of the story, if it looks at only one of the three elements of the so called finance trinity, i.e. savings products, loans, or insurances, as is largely done in the literature. In...
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Current thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations (oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state-centrism and lack of vision). The paper analyses a variety of the dominant explanations of major international actors and donors, showing how these...
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Migration and remittances are widely seen as major components of diversification strategies aimed at coping with risky environments in developing countries. The debate in the literature mainly concentrates on effects of and access to the strategy of migration. Against this background, the paper...
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