Are Muslim Countries More War-Prone?

The document serves as an appendix to a study on the relationship between majority religion and armed conflict. It provides detailed datasets on the majority religions of countries as of 2010, the incidence of intrastate armed conflict by religion between 1991 and 2012, and a comprehensive list of opposition groups in intrastate conflicts from 1946 to 2013. It specifically examines the prevalence of Islamist insurgents and the conflict history of the ten countries with the largest Muslim populations.

• Among the ten countries with the largest Muslim populations, only three had an active civil war in 2013, and seven of these ten countries had not experienced a civil war in the preceding ten years.
• The three countries among the ten most populous Muslim nations that had civil wars in 2013 represented 18% of the global Muslim population in 2009, whereas the other seven represented 49%.
• The dataset records no Islamist insurgencies occurring prior to 1975.

APA

Gleditsch, N. P., & Rudolfsen, I. (2015). Are Muslim Countries More War-Prone? Peace Research Institute Oslo. https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/eb7f8888-d862-45e7-a011-7130c57e7472/Gleditsch Rudolfsen - Are Muslim Countries More War-Prone Appendix.pdf?inline=true

Chicago

Gleditsch, Nils Petter, and Ida Rudolfsen. Are Muslim Countries More War-Prone? Peace Research Institute Oslo, 2015. https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/eb7f8888-d862-45e7-a011-7130c57e7472/Gleditsch Rudolfsen - Are Muslim Countries More War-Prone Appendix.pdf?inline=true.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gleditsch2015are, author = {Gleditsch, Nils Petter and Rudolfsen, Ida}, title = {{Are Muslim Countries More War-Prone?}}, institution = {Peace Research Institute Oslo}, year = {2015}, month = mar, url = {https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/eb7f8888-d862-45e7-a011-7130c57e7472/Gleditsch Rudolfsen - Are Muslim Countries More War-Prone Appendix.pdf?inline=true}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }