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incompatibilities, several forms of non-state religious violence) and ambivalence (inter-religious networks, religious peace initiatives …
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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 as a social force that is mobilizable by...
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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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Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideology in Africa have been undertaken to date. This study addresses this shortcoming by applying the Manifesto Research Group’s (MRG) coding scheme to a complete set of African party manifestos in...
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We study the determinants of households’ choices of lighting fuels in Kenya, including the option of using solar home … and sources from Kenya, one of the few relatively well-established SHSs markets in the world. Our results reveal some very …
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regions: Argentina, Venezuela, Indonesia, the Philippines, Kenya and Zambia. We conclude that neopatrimonialism is a valuable …
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article focuses on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as three East African countries that have opted for different ways of dealing … reasons for the absence of a ban in Kenya. The analysis shows that the laws on particularistic parties have actually been … not ensured the emergence of aggregative parties with a national following in Tanzania and Uganda. In Kenya on the other …
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This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya’s political parties and its party system … failed to bridge the country’s dominant ethnic cleavages. Consequently, all of Kenya’s significant parties represent ethnic …
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households based on data from a densely populated rural area in Western Kenya. The motivation behind migration is largely …
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