THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF SOME CONTEMPORARY CONFLICTS
Keywords:
jihad, radicalization, secularism, fundamentalism, ConflictAbstract
In a general way, religion has been a factor of rivalry and conflict between groups within each one of the main religions and between religions, even if that doesn’t mean that other conditioning factors, as economics, cultural or geostrategic, are weaker to explain wars and other forms of conflict that occurs between social groups and/or nations.
In this paper, I put a special emphasis to the conflicts concerning Islam, as well between Sunnis and Shi’ites than between Muslims and no-Muslims, because it’s nowadays a theme that, going together with terrorist attacks -mostly in the last twenty years- is representing the biggest threat for democracy and individual and collective liberties in those societies where these values exist. What had produced the so-called radical Islamism? To what degree the socio-economic transformations in the Muslim societies and in those with the higher levels of development can explain this phenomenon? These are some of the questions that founds here my reflection.
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