| Description |
1 online resource (15 pages) : color map |
| Series |
Africa briefing ; no. 117 |
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Africa briefing ; no. 117.
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| Contents |
Overview -- Faith in modern Ethiopia -- Communal tensions -- Intra-faith disputes -- Religion and government -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Ethiopia provides a significant example of the struggle governments are undertaking to find and implement effective policy responses to faith-based violent extremism and sectarian conflict. Given both demographic shifts and greater religious freedoms, the management of religious conflict and practice has of necessity been a complex and sometimes fraught task. A changed context has seen the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government shift from mediating conflict between faith groups to regulating religious practice, especially where there are political or extremist overtones. Local actors have used the state's interventionist inclinations in the confessional realm to gain advantage in wider leadership struggles within Ethiopia's ethnically based regional states. Opposition groups, not always within formal parties, have also used religious issues to score political points. The Ethiopian experience shows not only how faith is an increasing political resource, especially at local levels, but also lessons that can be learned from top-down interventions in the religious sphere."--Publisher's web site |
| Notes |
"22 February 2016." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (ICG, viewed February 22, 2016) |
| Subject |
Religion and politics -- Ethiopia
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Ethnic conflict -- Ethiopia -- Religious aspects
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Ethnic conflict -- Religious aspects.
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Politics and government.
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Religion.
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Religion and politics.
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| SUBJECT |
Ethiopia -- Religion -- 21st century
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Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Ethiopia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group, issuing body.
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