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 …‐/ out‐group mechanism utilized in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s, while the political elites tried to politicize religion. In …

) of religion vis-à-vis violence. In 22 of the 48 sub-Saharan countries, religion plays a substantial role in violence, and …, 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 …

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 …

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

In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security … trade in and consumption of drugs on the one hand, and gender-related violence on the other. It shows how the content and …

contemporary Central American violence, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua present important test cases, demonstrating the need … to differentiate the diagnosis. First, national discourses on violence differ from country to country, with varying … the mara paradigm, the perception of grand corruption, and gender-based violence tied to cross-national, national or sub …

social segregation. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, the paper analyzes the social perception of violence … in the three countries, the paper points out how elite arguments on violence and crime are translated into everyday life … hegemonic discourses on violence and crime in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Simultaneously, a majority of the …

-societal conflict without resorting to violence. This study investigates the preconditions of structural stability and tests their … appears between “democracy” and “rule of law,” respectively, on the one hand and the dependent variable “violence/ human …