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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 41, March 2022
On Civil War
Yara Bahaa - Economics
The phenomenon of civil war on the There is a consensus that the
African continent is a fertile field of phenomenon of civil war is mainly
study and analysis, especially since this related to ethnic divisions or ideology
phenomenon became widespread on the in a single society, but the political
African continent in the 1990s, which literature differed greatly in its
led to the expansion of interest in it in interpretation of the transformation
the international arena. Likewise, when process according to which ethnic
the intensity and intensity of the armed divisions in the context of peaceful
conflict increased in every case of civil conflict move to the stage of a large-
wars witnessed by the international scale armed explosion. One of the most
environment. Hence, the experience of important forms of civil wars in Africa
civil wars in Africa indicates that armed is The civil war in Sudan.
force alone cannot end the civil war The civil war in Sudan is
even if one of the parties managed to characterized by multiple dimensions
achieve a sweeping victory over the and levels. On the one hand, it is a civil
other or The other parties to the war war between the north and the south, in
always must end the civil war through a which the south seeks independence or
political settlement acceptable to all autonomy. On the other hand, it is a
parties, whether this settlement came war between political currents or forces
after the conflict was resolved militarily in the north itself. The problem of
or in the absence of a military southern Sudan is the main and most
resolution. pressing cause of the
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