The era of confessional conflict and war had come to an end in 1648, but urban culture continued to decline, and the empire became a country of innumerable courts.
The state's general authority regarding religion, and its sovereignty over all religious groups alike, also creates room for the toleration of religious minorities and thus restrains destabilizing confessional conflict.
If Locke is correct, then what we need to prevent confessional conflict is not compliance with a norm such as the DRR, but firm commitment to the right to religious freedom.
The last thing that he needs now is a confessional conflict, the repercussions of which could be a game changer.
Egypt must somehow avoid the fate of Syria (a civil war with over 100,000 civilian casualties), Iraq (a confessional conflict that produces over 10,000 deaths a year), and Libya (an anemic government and rampant lawlessness).
She condemned acts "aimed at inciting inter-ethnic and inter-confessional conflict".
Critic and literary theorist Georg Ellinger surmised in his study of Silesius that his poetry was influenced by loneliness (especially due to the death of his parents and becoming an orphan early in life), ungoverned impulsivity, and lack of personal fulfillment, rendering much of his poetry confessional and exhibiting internal psychological conflict.
Freedom of education is a constitutional guarantee in Belgium, but conflicts between public and confessional (i.e., Roman Catholic) schools date almost to the founding of the kingdom and remain a delicate problem within the social fabric.
Do they really expect Lou Diamond Phillips to be able to spice this conflict up in a confessional?
Ask anyone who has lived through the early stages of a broad conflict between groups, be they confessional, ethnic or ideological.
