This paper analyzes the role of religion with regard to the violence experienced during the past 20 years in Côte d …'Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and … reaction to the violence and politicization, the religious elites founded an interreligious organization in the 1990s, and were …

incompatibilities, several forms of non-state religious violence) and ambivalence (inter-religious networks, religious peace initiatives …) of religion vis-à-vis violence. In 22 of the 48 sub-Saharan countries, religion plays a substantial role in violence, and … different religious aspects of violence. …