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Religious peace activism : the rational element of religious elites' decision-making processes
Vüllers, Johannes - 2010
Religiöse Eliten engagieren sich in vielen Gewaltkonflikten für Frieden. Normative Rechtfertigungen für ihr Verhalten können dies oftmals jedoch nur unzureichend erklären. Zur Identifizierung von Faktoren für ein Friedensengagement rationaler religiöser Eliten stützen sich die Autoren...
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Nigeria : a prime example of the resource curse? : Revisiting the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta
Kuhn, Annegret - 2010
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 1990s, confirms the differentiated interplay of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908671
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" Dreams don't come true in Eritrea" : anomie and family disintegration due to the structural militarization of society
Hirt, Nicole - 2010
This article analyzes contemporary Eritrea's acute crisis within the framework of the theory of anomie. It is based on the hypothesis that militarization, forced labor, mass exodus, and family disintegration can be interpreted as the consequences of two incompatible norm and value systems: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908676
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Fuel for conflict or balm for peace? : Assessing the effects of hydrocarbons on peace efforts in Algeria
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
) causes of the outbreak of the intra-state war in 1992 and the reasons for its escalation and its fading out can be revealing …, some of the critical causes of the civil war such as the unfair distribution of revenue, the lack of political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908678
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Do religious factors impact armed conflict? : Empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Strüver, Georg (contributor); Basedau, Matthias (contributor) - 2011
Theoretically, the "mobilization hypothesis" establishes a link between religion and conflict by arguing that religious structures such as overlapping ethnic and religious identities are prone to mobilization; once politicized, escalation to violent conflict becomes likelier. Yet, despite the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154813
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Managing ethnic conflict : the menu of institutional engineering
Basedau, Matthias - 2011
The debate on institutional engineering offers options to manage ethnic and other conflicts. This contribution systematically assesses the logic of these institutional designs and the empirical evidence on their functioning. Generally, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229262
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Revisiting the resource-conflict link : a systematic comparative test of causal mechanisms in four major oil-exporting countries
Basedau, Matthias - 2011
Causal mechanisms and related contextual variables are crucial to the study of the resource-conflict link, but little systematic research has been done on their exact functioning. This paper contributes to the filling of this gap by comparing four major oil exporters (Algeria, Iran, Nigeria, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009261054
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Postwar youth violence : a mirror of the relationship between youth and adult society
Kurtenbach, Sabine - 2012
society in trying to cope with and overcome obstacles on the pathway to adulthood. Different patterns of war termination and … of reconstruction after war's end are identified as major intervening variables that explain the variations in youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565313
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Why do some oil exporters experience civil war but others do not? : A qualitative comparative analysis of net oil-exporting countries
Basedau, Matthias - 2011
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war onset. However, recent … debates on the nexus of oil and civil war have neglected that there are a number of peaceful oil-rentier states, and few … efforts have been spent to explain why some oilexporting countries have experienced civil war and others have not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008932927
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Cutting bread or cutting throats? : Findings from a new database on religion, violence and peace in sub-Saharan Africa, 1990 to 2008
Basedau, Matthias - 2011
Despite the religious diversity in sub-Saharan Africa and the religious overtones in a number of African conflicts, 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...
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