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While acknowledging critiques regarding sampling bias and the 'lived religion' perspective, they argue that terms like 'organized' or 'member' are too imprecise to invalidate mosque-based sampling. Using the FINEX project in the Nordic countries as a case study, they suggest that the 'technologization' of mosques (via social media and email) and their institutional role in European societies actually increase their utility as research entry points. They recommend a stratified approach to sampling and the separation of recruitment from the actual data collection environment to ensure ecological validity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001575#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Critics of using mosques as research entry points argue that such methods suffer from sampling bias because mosque attendees do not represent the total Muslim population's diversity in terms of age, gender, or theological viewpoints, and may overrepresent conservative or orthodox perspectives.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001575#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The authors contend that methodological critiques of mosque-based research often rely on unstable and imprecise definitions of 'organized' versus 'non-organized' Muslims, which vary significantly across different national contexts and funding regimes.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001575#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In the Nordic countries, mosque membership rates vary widely; for example, registered members of mosque organizations represent approximately 75% of the Muslim population in Norway, compared to 27% in Sweden, 20% in Finland, and 17% in Denmark (based on 2016/2017 estimates).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001575#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To minimize 'desirability bias' and the influence of the religious environment on responses, researchers should conceptually and practically separate the recruitment of participants through mosque networks from the actual data collection process.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001575#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The 'technologization' of mosques—specifically the use of Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and email—has expanded their reach, allowing them to connect with a broader range of Muslims, including those with only loose or occasional affiliations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001575#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The process of 'churchification' in Europe, where Islamic organizations are adapted to national legal and bureaucratic frameworks, has led to mosques being legitimized as representatives of Islam within their respective countries.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001575#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Europe","United States"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["methodological analysis","comparative study"]},{"id":"prio-001623","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/prio-001623","title":"Onset of Armed Conflict: A New List for the period 1946–2004, with Applications","publisher":{"name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo","organization":"peace-research-institute-oslo"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/48029a5d-4a06-4be4-ad9c-c37835dde4e0/Onset and Duration Manuscript.pdf?inline=true","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The author presents a new list of conflict onsets based on the Uppsala/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset (ACD), designed to address the lack of robustness in conflict literature caused by arbitrary coding decisions. The dataset allows researchers to vary the casualty threshold (\u0001) and the minimum period of peace required before a new conflict is coded between old adversaries (\u0002). To demonstrate the utility of this framework, the author re-analyzes the findings of Hegre et al. (2001). The results indicate that while the effect of proximity to regime change on conflict risk is robust across different definitions, the perceived war-proneness of semi-democratic regimes is not robust and varies depending on the onset definition used.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001623#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The new dataset provides a more inclusive list of 275 conflict onsets, significantly higher than the 127 and 145 onsets found in datasets by Fearon & Laitin (2003) and Sambanis (2004), respectively.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001623#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author proposes a flexible operational definition of conflict onset where the casualty threshold (\u0001) and the intermittency threshold (\u0002), which can range from two to nine years, are adjustable by the user to test robustness.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001623#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A re-analysis of Hegre et al. (2001) using the new framework shows that the relationship between proximity to regime change and the risk of conflict onset is robust, with a country experiencing recent regime change being 80-100% more likely to experience an onset.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001623#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The finding that semi-democratic regimes are more prone to conflict is not robust, as the results are dependent on the specific definition of onset used and the number of observations included.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001623#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Proximity to previous conflict, economic development, and population size are identified as consistently robust predictors of conflict onset across various model specifications.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001623#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author argues for a 'country-day' design over the standard 'country-year' format to better distinguish between cause and consequence when events occur within the same year.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001623#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["methodological analysis","quantitative analysis"]}]}