journal article

The Effects of Religious Discrimination on Ethno-Religious Protest and Rebellion

by Jonathan Fox

The Journal of Conflict Studies
vol. 20, iss. 2
Fall 2000

The purpose of this study is to assess empirically the causal effects of certain types of religious motivations for ethnic conflicts. The focus is on whether religious discrimination, and religious grievances based on such discrimination, affect the level of protest and/or rebellion in which ethno-religious minorities engage. Is religious discrimination one of the causes of ethno-religious protest and rebellion? This work shows that religious discrimination and grievances over that discrimination do contribute to rebellion and some types of protest but not in all cases and not always in the manner which one would intuitively expect.