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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005440090

State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America

Kurtenbach, Sabine - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

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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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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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

successful in preventing a religious war. …

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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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Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel’s Middle East Policies

Beck, Martin - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

The region of the Middle East is highly conflict-loaded. The absence of one distinct regional power may be considered …

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Power Sharing in the Asia-Pacific

Reilly, Benjamin - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014

Executive power sharing has been practiced widely in the Asia-Pacific region, in both for-mal and informal ways. This paper examines the theory and practice of these various ap-proaches to the sharing or dividing of governing power across the region. I look first at the broad issues of executive...

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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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The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 – a Convenient Myth? Ethnicity in Ghana’s Elections Revisited

Jockers, Heinz; Kohnert, Dirk; Nugent, Paul - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

dangerous time bomb of unresolved conflict which could explode in future elections. …

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