Fighting for a kingdom of God?: The role of religion in the Ivorian crisis
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 religious...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hamburg
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
2011
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GIGA working papers (178)
Year: 2011 |
| Series/Journal: | GIGA Working Papers
No. 178 GIGA Research Programme: Violence and Security |
| Further subjects: | B
Political conflict
B Violence B Einflussgröße B Religion B Intra-state conflict B Ivory Coast B Elite B History B Grey literature B Internal policy B Role B Religious conflict B Ideology B Politics B Arbeitspapier B Zweckentfremdung B Meaning |
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| Summary: | 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 religious and political actors. Religious identities were part of the growing in-/ out-group mechanism utilized in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1990s, while the political elites tried to politicize religion. In reaction to the violence and politicization, the religious elites founded an interreligious organization in the 1990s, and were successful in preventing a religious war. -- religion ; violence ; peace ; conflict ; Côte d'Ivoire |
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