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Das Volk als Kernbegriff jeder Demokratie ist eine historisch gewachsene und politisch veränderbare Größe. Langfristig ist die Entwicklung der Demokratie durch eine Ausweitung der Zugehörigkeit zum Volk gekennzeichnet - Volk als Summe der zur politischen Beteiligung berechtigten Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Diese vor allem durch (auf Rasse, Geschlecht und Religion bezogene) Diskriminierungsverbote und durch Migration bestimmte Entwicklung ruft Protestbewegungen hervor - den aktuellen Populismus. Populistische Bewegungen und Parteien neigen dazu, Volk als natürlich vorgegeben und nicht als historisch konstruiert zu sehen. ; The People, the core concept of any democracy, has been historically developed and was always open to political redefinition. In the history of democracy, the long term trend was characterized by a process of permanent widening, of enlarging the People. The understanding of the People, understood as the sum of all citizens invited to participate in the political process, has been significantly changed due to the end of discrimination (regarding race, gender and religion) and migration. This trend has provoked protest: populism. Populist movements and parties tend to define People as naturally given, not as historically constructed. ; Version of record

The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform "World Order – Religion – Violence" seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. It therefore deals especially with the return of religious themes and symbols into politics, with the analysis of the link between political theory and religion, and finally with the critical discussion of the secularization thesis. At the centre of the research are questions concerning the causes of violent conflict, the possibilities for a just world order and the conditions for peaceful coexistence on a local, regional, national and international/worldwide scale between communities in the face of divergent religious and ideological convictions. Its task is to initiate and coordinate thematically related research-efforts from various disciplinary backgrounds at the University of Innsbruck. It creates a network between departments, research-teams and single researchers working on topics of religion, politics and violence. The overall aim of the research platform World Order-Religion-Violence is to promote excellence in social and human science research on religion and politics at the University of Innsbruck and to guarantee the diffusion of this particular competence on a national and international level.