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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

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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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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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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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...

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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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