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How
civil wars cause poverty
During
a civil war, a society diverts some of its resources from
productive activities to violence. As a result, the society
loses twice over. A maller part of the society is producing
while another part is destroying. Young able people - especially
men are killed or maimed. Displacement of the population,
causes as much damage, since assets are shifted, and there
are massive health problems in refugee camps. Disease is rife,
and the host population also becomes infected.
War
appeals to the egos of the power-hungry. Youth can be tempted
to fight with the promise of riches, or just gainful employment.
For some fighting a war is better than normal existence. Others
with pschopathic tendencies see this as a great opportunity
to kill, rape, harm. They get hardened the more they fight.
Social grievances soon become lost in the battle, and it becomes
a gain of win or lose, live or die. Meanwhile, the gains made
during peace time in the country, are reversed in double quick
time.
Almost
all the countries of Africa have been touched by civil war
at some time in their recent history - since independence.
Even those, which were re-formed from ex-slaves of America
and England, ie Liberia and Sierra Leone have also suffered
civil wars.
It
is noted that conflicts in the West - and there are many -
tend to be fought through the media, or through demonstrations
- or through people trading insults on twitter. It
is not so common for whole sectors of society to pick up arms
and start fighting and killing each other. Though youth gangs
from some areas have attempted to replicate mini turf-wars.
The mafia in Italy, and drug gangs in Mexico are also always
warring. These however a limited to a very small minority
of the population, and thus do not affect the main economy.
Here
follows a list of civil wars which have occured since 1550.
Early
Modern (1550–1800)
French
Wars of Religion, 1562–1598
Rokosz of Zebrzydowski, 1606–1609 in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth
Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648 between Protestants and
Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire
Khmelnytsky Uprising 1648-1657
Wars of the Three Kingdoms (England, Ireland, Scotland) 1639–1651
involved a number of civil wars:
Irish Confederate Wars some parts of which were a civil war.[3]
English Civil War, 1642–1651
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, to some extent
a civil war, 1644–1652
First English Civil War 1642–1646
Second English Civil War 1648–1649
Third English Civil War 1650–1651
Rokosz of Lubomirski, 1665–1666 in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth
War in the Vendée France, 1793-1804 fought between
Royalist and Republican forces, part of the French Revolutionary
Wars
Modern
(1800–1945)
South
American wars of independence, 1808–1829
Argentine Civil War, 1814–1880
Zulu Civil War, 1817–1819
Liberal Wars (Portuguese Civil War), 1828–1834.
Chilean Civil War of 1829, 1829-1830
Carlist Wars, 1833–1839, 1846–1849, 1872–1876
in Spain
Uruguayan Civil War, 1839-1851
Maori War (New Zealand) 1845–1872
Sonderbund war (Switzerland), November 1847
Revolution of 1851 (Chile)
Taiping Rebellion (China), 1851–1864
Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1858
War of Reform (Mexico) 1857–1861
American Civil War, 1861–1865
Klang War; also known as Selangor Civil War, 1867–1874
Boshin War (Japan), 1868–1869
Satsuma Rebellion (Japan), 1877
Jementah Civil War, 1879
Chilean Civil War, 1891
Thousand Days War, 1899-1902 in Colombia
Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Russian Civil War, 1917–1921
Finnish Civil War, 1918
Irish Civil War, 1922–1923
Chinese Civil War, 1928–1937, 1945–1949
Austrian Civil War, February 12 to February 16, 1934
Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
War of national liberation (NOB, NOR) in area of Yugoslavia,
1941–1945
Post-WWII
(1945 to present)
Greek
Civil War, 1946–1949
Paraguayan Civil War, 1947
Palestinian Civil War, 1947–48
Costa Rican Civil War, 1948
La Violencia, 1948–1958
Korean War, 1950-1953 between North and South Korea
Laotian Secret War 1953-1975
Vietnamese Civil War, 1954–1975
Guatemalan Civil War, 1960–1996
Congo Crisis, 1960-1966
North Yemen Civil War 1962-1970
Dominican Civil War, 1963
Rhodesian Bush War, 1965–1980
Cypriot Civil War, 1967–1974
Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970
The Troubles, 1969–1998 (considered ongoing by extremist
minority groups)
Cambodian Civil War 1970-1975
Pakistani Civil War, 1971
Lebanese Civil War, 1975–1990
Mozambican Civil War, see Rome General Peace Accords, 1975–1992
Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002
Cambodia, 1978–1993, 1997–1998
Nicaraguan Civil War, 1979–1990
Salvadoran Civil War (El Salvador), 1979–1991
Peruvian Civil War, 1980–2000
Second Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005
Sri Lankan Civil War, 1983–2009
First Liberian Civil War, 1989-1996
Rwandan Civil War, 1990–1993
Casamance Conflict, 1990–2006
Georgian Civil War, 1991-1993
Sierra Leone Civil War, 1991–2002
Algerian Civil War, 1991–2002, conflicts persist
Civil war in Tajikistan, 1992-1997
Burundi Civil War, 1993–2005
Civil war in Yemen, 1994
First Chechen War, 1994-1996
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War, 1994–1997
First Congo War, 1996–1997
Republic of the Congo Civil War, 1997-1999 in Congo-Brazzaville
Nepalese Civil War, 1996–2006 labelled "People's
War" by the Maoists
1997 rebellion in Albania, 1997
Republic of the Congo Civil War, 1997-1999
Guinea-Bissau Civil War, 1998–1999
Kosovo War, 1998–1999
Second Congo War, 1998-2003
Second Liberian Civil War, 1999-2003
Second Chechen War, 1999-2009
Albanian rebellion in Macedonia 2001
Ivorian Civil War, 2002-2007, conflicts persist
War in Darfur, 2003-2009
2004 Haitian rebellion, 2004
Fatah–Hamas conflict (third Palestinian Civil War), 2006–2009,
Ongoing
civil wars
The
following civil wars are ongoing as of 2011.
Only ongoing conflicts meeting the definition of a civil war
are listed.
Colombian
armed conflict, since 1964.
Afghan civil war, since 1978.
Ugandan Civil War, since 1987.
Somali Civil War, since 1991.
Sa'dah insurgency, since 2004 in Yemen
Civil war in Chad, since 2005, part of the War in Darfur.
Civil war in Iraq, since ca. 2007, part of the larger War
in Iraq (since 2003).
Civil war in Libya, 2011.
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