Back عنف طائفي Arabic Violència sectària Catalan Violencia sectaria Spanish خشونت فرقهای Persian Violência sectária Portuguese Sekteriskt våld Swedish
Sectarian violence and/or sectarian strife is a form of communal violence which is inspired by sectarianism, that is, discrimination, hatred or prejudice between different sects of a particular mode of an ideology or different sects of a religion within a nation/community. Religious segregation often plays a role in sectarian violence.