Religious conflicts

-Yunge Wang- Maria Plaza

Miverva Liberal Arts Human Being and Civilization유경한

● International conflicts● Religious conflicts.● Reasons of religious conflicts● Israeli-Palestinian conflict● Middle east conflicts tend to be more religious?● Causes of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.● Conclusion.

Index

Discuss the reason why religious conflicts around the world have occurred particularly in the post-cold war era? Does it reflect any

social inequality and/or ideological struggle? Please make the clear difference or make the deep connection between the conflict of

religion and the social conflict by providing a specific case?

Six types of international conflicts

● Ethnic● Ideological● Territorial ● Religious ● Governmental ● Economic

Conflict occurs when something is contested.When we couple religion with conflict, we might expect that what is contested is ideology or morality (i.e., belief).

Religions in different ways will inevitably cause different missionary values of religious organizations for conflict due to different opinions and interests.

Religions mainly affects in two ways: ● First, the peace of the competition● The second is mandatory struggle, including armed fights and war. The world's

religious conflicts in the three major religions, Christianity, Islam conflict as well as Judaism which are the most long-term performance,the most intense.

Religious conflicts are complex, often together with the national

struggle, the state struggles.

The main reasons are:

1. Different doctrines, different values, causing the opposite of ideology.

2. Representatives of the different economic, political interests, causing the interests of the conflict.

3. In order to survive and lead to the development of other religious forces and external conflicts.

4. With the geographical environment, and the peripheral national situation about.

5. Power of the ruler used by religious organizations, as a political and economic interests of the tool caused by the conflict.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the hot spot in the Middle East. Moreover, there are external factors which worsen it such as country intervention,economy

issues and so on, making the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a non-stop one.

Will the Middle East achieve real peace some day?

Case

Consequences

● The most recent example is the Iran-Iraq

war, whose number of dead is estimated at

over 1,500,000.

● In 2012, at least 167 Palestinians and six

Israelis were killed during an Israeli

operation.

● Most recently in July 2014, authorities said

over 2,200 people were killed - most of

them Palestinians.

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Are middle east conflicts more religious?Religious differences make conflict more likely and more intense. The more diverse a country’s religious population, the more violent its domestic conflicts tend to be. Religious differences also make international wars more likely.

Religion shapes discrimination against ethnic minorities. Religious and nonreligious discrimination is more likely in states where it is legitimate to use religion in political discourse and in conflicts where religious issues are important.

Autocratic regimes are more likely than non-autocratic regimes to discriminate against religious minorities. Autocracies engage in higher average levels of discrimination against ethno-religious minorities than do democracies.

Regimes in Muslim states are more autocratic. One study finds that Muslim states are the most autocratic states in the world, based on a measure of the extent to which a state is a liberal democracy as well as on a separate measure of institutional democracy.

Discuss the reason why religious conflicts around the world have occurred particularly in the post-cold war era? Does it reflect any

social inequality and/or ideological struggle? Please make the clear difference or make the deep connection between the conflict of

religion and the social conflict by providing a specific case?

Causes of the conflict

Conclusion

It is easy to assume that the prevalence of religious conflict in the Middle East is due to the region’s Islamic and autocratic character. It is also easy to assume that the region’s high concentration of autocracy is due to the region’s Islamic character. Yet neither of these assumptions appear to be correct. Since the awakening of religion, wars have been fought in the name of different gods and goddesses. Still today most violent conflicts contain religious elements linked up with ethno-national, inter-state, economic, territorial, cultural and other issues.