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Academic studies and other research consistently challenge the link between religion and war.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/14/religions-war-cause-responsible-evidence_n_6156878.html Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer for?] by Louise Ridley, assistant news editor at the Huffington Post UK</ref> See: [[Irreligion/religion and war]]
Academic studies and other research consistently challenge the link between religion and war.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/14/religions-war-cause-responsible-evidence_n_6156878.html Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer for?] by Louise Ridley, assistant news editor at the Huffington Post UK</ref> See: [[Irreligion/religion and war]]
Louise Ridley in her article entitled ''Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer For?'':
{{Cquote|But academic studies consistently challenge the link between [[religion]] and [[war]]. [http://www.visionofhumanity.org/#/page/news/1085 Research published in October from the New York and Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace] looked at all of the wars that took place in 2013. It found no 'general causal relationship' between religion and conflict.
In fact, religious elements played no role at all in 14 (40%) of the 35 armed conflicts in the research, and only five (14%) had religious elements as their main cause, the report showed. All of the wars had multiple causes, and the much more common motivation was opposition to a government, or to the economic, ideological, political or social systems of a state, which was named as a main factor in nearly two thirds of the cases studied.
The ''Encyclopedia of Wars'', an extensive study published in 2008, chronicles 1,763 wars throughout human history. It names just 123 as 'religious in nature' – a little under 7%.
The [http://economicsandpeace.org/ Institute for Economics and Peace] report also found that having less religion in a country doesn’t make it more peaceful. The proportion of atheists in a country had no bearing on levels of peace.
Countries with the highest levels of [[atheism]] – mainly [[communism|communist]] or former communist states like [[Russia]] and the [[Czech Republic]] – were not necessarily the most peaceful. [[North Korea]], which has one of the lowest rates of people practising religion, was one of ten 'least peaceful' countries in world last year, according to the report.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/14/religions-war-cause-responsible-evidence_n_6156878.html Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer for?] by Louise Ridley, assistant news editor at the Huffington Post UK</ref>}}
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==Further reading==