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Non-religious conflicts declined in the 1990s and their occurrence has broadly flattened out since. This CSS Policy Perspective argues this indicates that classical conflict resolution approaches are generally working. Except, that is, when it comes to conflicts in which one or more of the issues being fought over have a religious dimension. Such conflicts have not only on been on the rise since the late 1970s, they now account for a majority of all armed conflicts. So how should conflict resolution approaches respond?