Introduction
Religion and Civil War
Compelling Cases
Former Soviets
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What is one main difference that the authors of the text claim to "usually" differentiate religious terrorism from civil wars?
1. Single focused targets. 2. Kill smaller numbers of people.
100
Religious civil war will be least likely to occur in states with conditions that are?
Close to consensual independence
100
The Islamic political party from Algeria that fought against the secular socialist government.
What is Islamic Salvation Front (FIS)
100
The Chechen Civil Wars took place between these years
What is 1994-96 and 1999-Present
200
What religious group rose to be one of the more dominant terrorist groups in Afghanistan after the withdraw of Soviet troops in the 1980s?
The Taliban
200
When can change be achieved by means of nonviolent action such as public debates or new elections?
If the relationship between religious and political authority is one of independence.
200
The event that sparked the Algerian civil war
What is the cancellation of an election
200
The first Chechen War took place because of
What is Discontent with the environmental conditions
300
What were the two main questions surrounding the Taliban in Afghanistan that remain largely unanswered today?
1. Who will govern? 2. What role will religion play in relation to the state?
300
This terrorist organization's conflict with Sri Lanka developed into a religious civil war that killed roughly 100,000 people between 1983 and 2009.
Tamil Tigers
300
The 4 Iraqi civil wars as noted by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
What is Shi'a on Shi'a, Sectarian conflict, Insurgency, Al Qaeda
300
In Tajikistan the goal of the Islamist revolutionaries was not to create an Islamic state. They took up arms because
What is They wanted the ability to participate in politics
400
What is the name of the influence that the authors state "can influence the identities and loyalties of the players in the conflict" in a religious civil war?
Peripheral (religious) influence
400
What were the two main parties in China during its conflict with Tibet?
1. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 2. The People's Republic of China (PRC)
400
The document predicting instability in postwar Iraq
What is the Unified Mission Plan for Post Hostilities Iraq
400
Tajikistan's civil war is different from many others and can be viewed as a success because of
What is The acceptance and integration of religiously backed political parties (i.e. the IRP) in their parliament
500
What has allowed "one state's religious violence" to cross political and geographic boundaries and "seep into the affairs of another?"
Globalization of religious networks
500
Despite their unlikeliness, what are the two threats that could make war a possibility in states that are close to a consensual integration?
1. the minority group is repressed by the state (or dominated majority) 2. the repressed group has or adopts a political theology that motivates it to oppose repression through violence
500
The significance of increasing political openness (In the case of Algeria)
What is Religious actors possessing freedoms necessary to pursue their goals through political means, the risk of violence -- in the form of terrorism, civil war, or both -- will generally be lower
500
The change in Chechen identity and reason for resistance from the first civil war to the second is a result of these two factors
What is 1. Russian resistance to, and campaign against Islamic terrorism post 9/11 2. Islamic support and aid in Chechnya
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