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Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015
This article introduces the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) data, 1975 to 2015, which is a new data set suitable for analyzing the causes, dynamics, and resolution of religious conflicts. It contains information about key religious dimensions of conflicts: whether the issue at stake is religious...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249647/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002717737057 |
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description | This article introduces the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) data, 1975 to 2015, which is a new data set suitable for analyzing the causes, dynamics, and resolution of religious conflicts. It contains information about key religious dimensions of conflicts: whether the issue at stake is religious, the actors’ religious identity, and fine-grained data about the type and salience of religious claims. The article presents the major features of the data set and describes patterns and trends that shed new light on religious conflicts, for example, by demonstrating that conflicts over Islamist claims have become more prevalent. We also illustrate the utility of the data. For instance, we show that there is great variation in lethality across conflicts with different types of Islamist claims, thereby offering a more nuanced understanding of the deadliness of religious conflicts. RELAC should be a valuable resource for scholars, examining religious dimensions of intrastate armed conflicts. |
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spelling | pubmed-62496472018-12-17 Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015 Svensson, Isak Nilsson, Desirée J Conflict Resolut Data Set Feature This article introduces the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) data, 1975 to 2015, which is a new data set suitable for analyzing the causes, dynamics, and resolution of religious conflicts. It contains information about key religious dimensions of conflicts: whether the issue at stake is religious, the actors’ religious identity, and fine-grained data about the type and salience of religious claims. The article presents the major features of the data set and describes patterns and trends that shed new light on religious conflicts, for example, by demonstrating that conflicts over Islamist claims have become more prevalent. We also illustrate the utility of the data. For instance, we show that there is great variation in lethality across conflicts with different types of Islamist claims, thereby offering a more nuanced understanding of the deadliness of religious conflicts. RELAC should be a valuable resource for scholars, examining religious dimensions of intrastate armed conflicts. SAGE Publications 2017-10-30 2018-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6249647/ /pubmed/30568316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002717737057 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Data Set Feature Svensson, Isak Nilsson, Desirée Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015 |
title | Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015 |
title_full | Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015 |
title_fullStr | Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015 |
title_full_unstemmed | Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015 |
title_short | Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015 |
title_sort | disputes over the divine: introducing the religion and armed conflict (relac) data, 1975 to 2015 |
topic | Data Set Feature |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249647/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002717737057 |
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