Rethinking Mediation: Resolving Religious Conflicts

Author(s): Jonas Baumann, Daniel Finnbogason, Isak Svensson
Editor(s): Prem Mahadevan, Martin Zapfe
Series Editor(s): Martin Zapfe
Series: CSS Policy Perspectives
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2018

Non-religious conflicts declined in the 1990s and their occurrence has broadly flattened out since. This CSS Policy Perspective argues this indicates that classical conflict resolution approaches are generally working. Except, that is, when it comes to conflicts in which one or more of the issues being fought over have a religious dimension. Such conflicts have not only on been on the rise since the late 1970s, they now account for a majority of all armed conflicts. So how should conflict resolution approaches respond?

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Countries that experienced armed conflict with religious dimensions in 2016

Number of Armed Conflicts Worlwide by Type, 1975-2015