title: The role of the religious factor in the formation of conflict zones in Africa
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metadata.value: Zakharov, Ivan A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Gorokhov, Stanislav A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Dmitriev, Ruslan V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T14:42:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T14:42:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Zakharov, I. A., Gorokhov, S. A., Dmitriev, R. V. (2020). The role of the religious factor in the formation of conflict zones in Africa. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 65 (4), 640–653.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2020.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23886
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article attempts to identify the impact of religious competition on the spatial development
  of conflict zones in Africa. On the basis of ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event
  Data) for 1997–2017, three conflict zoned were identified: the Sudan-Sahel Corridor, the periphery
  of the Catholic “domain” in the central part of the continent and the countries of the
  Lake Chad Basin. The results made it possible to clarify some findings and conclusions about
  the conflict potential of the macroregion obtained in civilizational studies. It is confirmed
  that most conflicts in Africa are located in the Sudan-Sahel Corridor (this territory roughly
  corresponds to the border of Islamic and African civilizations), primarily in countries with
  a fairly equal number of Christian and Muslim. Correlation analysis confirmed that such a
  confessional structure of the population is conflict-prone; it contributes to increased ferocity
  of conflicts. However, religion-based violence does not exclusively appear in the zones of competition
  between Islam and Christianity; there are other conflict zones where the emergence
  of conflicts is due to growing competition between branches of the same religion. On the
  periphery of the Catholic “domain” conflicts are currently ethno-political in nature, but their
  occurrence is ascribed largely to the competition between Catholic and Protestant missionary
  societies. The countries of the Lake Chad Basin are characterized by competition between
  Sunnism and Shiism. At the same time, this conflict zone is one of the largest “producers” of
  radical Islamist groups; the organization level of the latter is often higher than that of opposing
  state and international bodies. There is a close spatial connection between conflict zones.
  In this regard, countries belonging to several conflict zones are at higher risk of emergence
  of complex conflicts. The findings indicate a strong influence of the religious factor on the
  conflict potential of the African continent. The analysis of historical materials showed that the
  occurrence of conflicts in the identified conflict zones is determined primarily by the logic of
  African countries’ confessional space development and can be explained from the standpoint
  of the concept of competitive development of confessional geospace.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was compiled on the basis of research materials on the topics of State Assignment of the
  Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences No. 0148-2019-0008 and the African Institute
  of the Russian Academy of Sciences No. 0192-2019-0021. The research methodology was developed within
  the framework of State Assignment topic No. 0192-2019-0021; the calculations were made within the
  framework of State Assignment topic No. 0148-2019-0008.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 65; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Africa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: confessional geospace
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conflicts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conflict potential
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious competition
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The role of the religious factor in the formation of conflict zones in Africa
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metadata.value: Article
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