id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_asbfnbw3irfynls7pcy7qpqveq Natalia Vlas IS RELIGION INHERENTLY VIOLENT? RELIGION AS A THREAT AND PROMISE FOR THE GLOBAL SECURITY 2017 18 .pdf application/pdf 9326 661 57 Key words: global security, religion, peace, violence. of declining and eventually disappearing, religion persists both in the individual conscience and in the public sphere, continuing to shape the political beliefs and practices of a great number of people and institutions throughout the world.5 and that, as some observers note: 'at the turn of the new millennium, religious loyalties are at the root of many of the world's ongoing civil wars and political violence'7 mechanism in global conflict',8 the analysis of the nexus between religion and security becomes an extremely necessary and timely enterprise. some recommendations meant to improve the ability of International Relations practitioners and policy-makers to make religion part of the solution to the global security 5 Scott Thomas, The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relation, The Struggle for the Soul of Smock, ed., Religious Contributions to Peacemaking – When Religion Brings Peace, Not War (Washington: United ./cache/work_asbfnbw3irfynls7pcy7qpqveq.pdf ./txt/work_asbfnbw3irfynls7pcy7qpqveq.txt