Conflict in Zoroastrianism Religion

Religion, Conflict, and Cooperation Section 1: Introduction Section Iii: History of Religion and Violent Conflict Section Iv: Explaining the Link between Religion and Violent Conflict Section Iv: Religion and Non-violent Conflict

Religion engenders conflict and cooperation. Defining religion is a prerequisite for pondering this paradox. Scholars define religion in several ways (Roberts 2004). Functional definitions focus on what religion does for adherents, such as providing a perspective from which to interpret the world, helping cope with life's trials, and addressing concerns about the purpose of life and eventuality...

Giraffes, Religion and Conflict: Essays in Behavioral Decision Making by

Essay 1: Objective Scale Anchoring in Sequential Judgments We explore the scope and boundary conditions for anchoring when respondents render sequential judgments in the absence of an explicit comparative standard. We show that previous judgments can anchor subsequent ones, even when these are not explicitly compared. We then demonstrate that the effect is caused by the reinterpretation of obje...

WELCOME Religion and the patterns of conflict in Northern Ireland

Religious distinctions are key to social and symbolic bouundaries in many societies, and most certainly so in Northern Ireland. The historical patterning of religious opposition, most particularly perhaps in the conservative character of the forms of Protestantism and Catholicism in Ireland, is clear. Recent works have traced the many ways religion has fed into conflict in the present, and the ...

‘Negotiating with ghosts’: Religion, conflict and peace in Northern Uganda

This article outlines the current situation with regard to the Lord’s Resistance Army and the possibilities for peace in Northern Uganda. It seeks to add to the discourse on rethinking Africa’s international relations in the context of a specific conflict and with regard to a specific tool of the international community: the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its involvement in issuing warr...

Theology Master program of Religion in Peace and Conflict