Publication

This report provides an overview of Africa's religious landscape and examines the role of religion in the continent's various conflicts. It proceeds to look at Eastern Africa, where the traditional religions of Islam and Christianity are present in large numbers. The author does not find any significant correlation between conflict propensity or terrorism and religion, neither in the sense that religious diversity gives rise to a "clash of civilizations", nor in the sense that the predominance of any one religion would make a country more prone to conflict or terrorism. The report then proceeds to provide country-by-country case studies on Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, providing a brief overview of the history of religion and conflict and an assessment of the present situation and the prospects for the future.