@article{ref1,
title="What drives inter-religious violence? Lessons from Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, and Tanzania",
journal="Studies in conflict and terrorism",
year="2013",
author="Basedau, Matthias and Vüllers, Johannes and Körner, Peter",
volume="36",
number="10",
pages="857-879",
abstract="Given its religious demography, sub-Saharan Africa seems particularly prone to the outbreak of violent clashes between Christians and Muslims. This article compares three sub-Saharan countries--Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, and Tanzania--that display different levels of inter-religious violence despite each having in common similar population ratios of Christians and Muslims, as well as all sharing a number of the classical risk factors for conflict onset. The analysis of these three case studies shows that higher levels of inter-religious violence result from horizontal inequalities and overlapping religious and ethnic group boundaries that, in the context of tense political transformation, consequently breed inter-religious grievances and violence. When theological ideas become politicized, inter-religious violence reaches its most intense level of expression.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1057-610X",
doi="10.1080/1057610X.2013.823761",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2013.823761"
}