Are muslim countries more prone to violence?

Research and Politics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Gleditsch, Nils Petter ^a   Rudolfsen, Ida ^a,b  

^a PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Armed conflict; Islam; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985934388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053168016646392     Document Type: Article

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