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June 2011
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Jun 2011
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict?
Author: Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver, Johannes Vüllers, Tim Wegenast
Publisher:
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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 ...
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