Civil War
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A Civil War is a military conflict that occurs within a single state between competing organized groups.
- AKA: Civil Conflict, Internal War, Domestic Warfare.
- Context:
- It can typically involve Civil War Armed Forces loyal to different civil war political factions within the same civil war national boundary.
- It can typically emerge from civil war constitutional crisises where civil war political disputes cannot be resolved through civil war institutional means.
- It can typically result in civil war casualtys, civil war economic devastation, and civil war social disruption.
- It can typically lead to civil war population displacement and civil war refugee crisises across civil war affected regions.
- It can typically include civil war propaganda campaigns to sway civil war public opinion toward civil war belligerent sides.
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- It can often fracture civil war pre-existing alliances and create civil war complex coalitions.
- It can often transform civil war political systems and civil war social structures fundamentally.
- It can often involve foreign power intervention in support of different civil war factions.
- It can often lead to civil war atrocitys against civil war civilian populations.
- It can often result in civil war territorial fragmentation with competing civil war authoritys claiming civil war sovereignty.
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- It can range from being a Limited Civil War to being a Total Civil War, depending on its civil war societal involvement.
- It can range from being a Political Civil War to being an Identity-Based Civil War, depending on its civil war motivational basis.
- It can range from being a Short-Duration Civil War to being a Protracted Civil War, depending on its civil war temporal extent.
- It can range from being a Localized Civil War to being a Nationwide Civil War, depending on its civil war geographical scope.
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- It can involve civil war negotiation processes aimed at civil war conflict resolution.
- It can trigger civil war humanitarian crisises requiring civil war emergency response.
- It can destroy civil war economic infrastructure leading to civil war reconstruction needs.
- It can disrupt civil war educational systems and civil war healthcare provision.
- It can lead to civil war war crime prosecutions and civil war transitional justice efforts.
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- Examples:
- Historical Civil Wars, such as:
- Ancient Civil Wars, such as:
- Roman Civil War (49-45 BCE), pitting Caesar against Pompey for civil war political control.
- Roman Civil War (43-31 BCE), following Caesar's assassination and featuring civil war factional struggle.
- Byzantine Civil War (1321-1328), demonstrating civil war dynastic conflict.
- Early Modern Civil Wars, such as:
- English Civil War (1642-1651), involving civil war constitutional monarchy versus civil war parliamentary sovereignty.
- French Civil War (1648-1653), known as the Fronde and showing civil war aristocratic resistance.
- Modern Civil Wars, such as:
- American Civil War (1861-1865), fought over civil war national unity and civil war slavery institution.
- Russian Civil War (1917-1922), following the Russian Revolution and featuring civil war ideological struggle.
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), between civil war republican forces and civil war nationalist factions.
- Contemporary Civil Wars, such as:
- Syrian Civil War (2011-present), demonstrating civil war sectarian divisions and civil war international proxy conflict.
- Yemeni Civil War (2014-present), showing civil war humanitarian catastrophe.
- Ukrainian Civil Conflict (2014-2022), preceding Russian invasion and featuring civil war separatist movements.
- Ancient Civil Wars, such as:
- Civil War Typologies, such as:
- Ethnic Civil Wars, such as:
- Rwandan Civil War (1990-1994), culminating in civil war genocide.
- Bosnian Civil War (1992-1995), demonstrating civil war ethnic cleansing.
- Ideological Civil Wars, such as:
- Secessionist Civil Wars, such as:
- Ethnic Civil Wars, such as:
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- Historical Civil Wars, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- International Wars, which occur between separate sovereign states rather than within a single civil war political entity.
- Political Protests, which involve civil disobedience but lack organized civil war military components.
- Coup d'États, which feature rapid seizure of government control rather than prolonged civil war conflict.
- Insurgency Campaigns, which typically involve asymmetric warfare against established government without reaching full civil war intensity.
- Border Disputes, which concern territorial contention between sovereign states rather than internal civil war factions.
- See: Military Conflict, Political Violence, Revolution, Insurgency, Guerrilla Warfare, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Peace Process.