Do religious factors impact armed conflict? : Emiprical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias; Strüver, Georg; Vüllers, Johannes; Wegenast, Tim

Do religious factors impact armed conflict? : Emiprical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

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2011

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Basedau, Matthias

Strüver, Georg

Vüllers, Johannes

Wegenast, Tim

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Open Access Green

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Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

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Terrorism and Political Violence. 2011, 23(5), pp. 752-779. ISSN 0954-6553. Available under: doi: 10.1080/09546553.2011.619240

Zusammenfassung

Theoretically, the “mobilization hypothesis” establishes a link between religion and conflict by arguing that particular religious structures are prone to mobilization; once politicized, escalation to violent conflict becomes more likely. Yet, despite the religious diversity in sub-Saharan Africa and the religious overtones in a number of African conflicts, this assumption has not yet been backed by systematic empirical research on the religion–conflict nexus in the region. The following questions thus remain: Do religious factors significantly impact the onset of (religious) armed conflict? If so, do they follow the logic of the mobilization hypothesis and, if so, in which way? To answer these questions, this article draws on a unique data inventory of all sub-Saharan countries for the period 1990–2008, particularly including data on mobilization-prone religious structures (e.g., demographic changes, parallel ethno-religious identities) as well as religious factors indicating actual politicization of religion (e.g., inter-religious tensions, religious discrimination, incitement by religious leaders). Logit regressions suggest that religion indeed plays a significant role in African armed conflicts. These findings are compatible with the mobilization hypothesis, and stress the impact of conflict-prone religious structures, and particularly, the fact that overlaps of religious and ethnic identities are conflict-prone. Future research should investigate the religion-ethnicity-nexus in more detail.

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320 Politik

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armed conflict, mobilization, religion, sub-Saharan Africa

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BASEDAU, Matthias, Georg STRÜVER, Johannes VÜLLERS, Tim WEGENAST, 2011. Do religious factors impact armed conflict? : Emiprical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Terrorism and Political Violence. 2011, 23(5), pp. 752-779. ISSN 0954-6553. Available under: doi: 10.1080/09546553.2011.619240

BibTex

@article{Basedau2011relig-18606,
  year={2011},
  doi={10.1080/09546553.2011.619240},
  title={Do religious factors impact armed conflict? : Emiprical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa},
  number={5},
  volume={23},
  issn={0954-6553},
  journal={Terrorism and Political Violence},
  pages={752--779},
  author={Basedau, Matthias and Strüver, Georg and Vüllers, Johannes and Wegenast, Tim}
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