Codebook for Religion and Civilization Variables for Use with the PITF Dataset

This dataset contains variables covering data on civil wars from the PITF dataset with variables measuring the religious and civilizational content of the conflict. The data covers 1948 to 2009. For more details see:

Jonathan Fox "The Religious Wave: Religion and Domestic Conflict, 1960 to 2009" Civil Wars, 14 (2), 2012, 141-158

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Religion variables for use with the Minorities at Risk dataset

The Minorities at Risk (MAR) project collects data on ethnic minorities in the post-World War II era. It includes data on over 300 minorities. The following datasets were collected by Jonathan Fox for use with the MAR data.

Operationalizing Huntington's Civilizations: This dataset is designed to operationalize Samuel Huntington's concept of civilizations and to provide variables for religious identity, both for use with the Minorities at Risk (MAR) dataset. The codebook contains a description of the variables. The dataset is in SPSS format.

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Religion and Ethnic Conflict: The purpose of this dataset is to provide variables measuring the religious elements of ethnic conflict that can be used with the Minorities at Risk Phase III dataset. The unit of analysis is the ethnic minority. The variables described below are coded for the 105 cases in the MARIII dataset in which the ethnic minorities involved are religiously different from the majority group. For operational purposes, a minority is considered to be a separate religion if it is 80% different from the majority group. Protestant and Catholic Christianity are considered separate religions for the purposes of this study. However, Orthodox Christianity is not considered sufficiently different from either Protestantism or Catholicism for such conflicts to be included. The Sunni and Shi'i branches of Islam are considered separate religions for the purpose of this study. In addition, cases of civil war are also not included because the study for which this data was collected focuses on the relationship between minority groups and governments controlled by a majority group. Cases where these is no effective government, like Bosnia, are therefore not included. A list of the groups included in this study is provided at the end of this codebook. There are three types of religious variables coded: religious grievances, religious discrimination, and religious demands. The dataset is in SPSS format.

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