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 … reaction to the violence and politicization, the religious elites founded an interreligious organization in the 1990s, and were …

“capitalisation of power”. Applying this concept to Israel, and drawing on seemingly unrelated phenomena, the authors reveal the big …

historical role played by key power groups. And, finally, rather than focus merely on domestic considerations, we claim that both …