ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an 'empirical interlude' in which the commonly accepted notions of religion and international relations receive a practical treatment. Using real-world examples, the previously conceptual analyses are illustrated in order to simplify understanding and to add a practical dimension to the hitherto mostly theoretical and conceptual investigations by suggesting what the correlates are of religious armed conflict. The notion of violence due to violent politicised religion on a state-level is exemplified by the contemporary conflict in the Sudan, where sharia-law has led to violence, discrimination and persecution on religious grounds. Any choice of a so-called terrorist organisation or group as an illustration of 'religious terrorism' would inevitably betray a particular bias or preference for one cause or another. The religious identity of the Karens that was imposed by outside powers, with hidden agendas, less than two centuries ago have proved to be a virtually insoluble situation today.
