Fighting for Not-So-Religious Souls: The Role of Religious Competition in Non-Religious Conflicts

Héctor Galindo Silva; Guy Tchuente and Guy Tchuente
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Guy Tchuente

Vniversitas Económica, 2019, vol. 0, issue 0, No 17555, 56 pages

Abstract: Abstract Many countries embroiled in non-religious civil conflicts have experienced a dramatic increase in religious competition in recent years. This study examines whether increasing competition between religions affects violence in non-religious conflicts. The study focuses on Colombia, a deeply Catholic country that has suffered one of the world’s longest-running internal conflicts and, in the last few decades, has wit-nessed an intense increase in religious competition between the Catholic Church and new non-Catholic churches. The estimation of a dynamic treatment effect model shows that establishing the first non-Catholic church in a municipality substantially increases the probability of an attack by a left-wing guerrilla group. Further analysis suggests that the increase in guerrilla attacks is associated with the expectation among guerrilla groups that their membership will decline as a consequence of more intense competition with religious groups for followers.

Keywords: Marketplace for Religion; Armed Conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H41 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15N2ebJurCf08ZQpKZL5xQEXVI5617PlZ/view

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000416:017555

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Vniversitas Económica from Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mayerly Galindo Rodriguez ().