Religious Conflict
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Religious Conflict
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Conflicts along Religious Borders
• Interfaith Boundaries– Boundaries between the world’s major faiths.
• Intrafaith Boundaries– Boundaries within a single major faith.
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Interfaith Boundary in Africa
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Nigeria
• Islam in the north• Christianity in the south• Imposition of sharia law
there• Ibo in SE (secessionist
sentiment there)
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Civil War in Sudan
• Slavery
• Since 1983, attempts to impose sharia law on the Christian south
• truce
• Has not been friendly to the US
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Situation in Darfur is not a religious conflict--both groups are Islamic.
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Ethiopia--Coptic Christians in the highlands
--Islam in the lowlands
Indigenous religions remain in pockets,
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Partition of India
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Conflict over Kashmir
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Ayodhya
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Sri Lanka--30% Tamil (Hindu-Dravidian)
Separatist movement
--70% Sinhalese Buddhists
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Armenia and AzerbaijanSoviet Union’s divide-and-diminish plan
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The Former YugoslaviaGenocide
Ethnic Cleansing
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Israel and Palestine
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The West Bank
with a the proposed security wall, parts of which the Israeli
government has already built.
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Northern Ireland (Intrafaith conflict)
Identities are tied to Religion, but are deepened by:
- economics
- colonial experiences
- activity spaces (segregation)
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Sunni-Shi’ite Conflict
(intrafaith conflict)