Civil War

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.
  • 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:
      • Chinese Civil War (1927-1949), between civil war communist forces and civil war nationalist government.
      • Greek Civil War (1946-1949), showing civil war cold war proxy dynamics.
    • Secessionist Civil Wars, such as:
      • Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), featuring civil war Biafran independence attempt.
      • Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009), involving civil war Tamil separatist movement.
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• 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.

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