POLSCI 3Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Foday Sankoh, Revolutionary United Front, Financial Institution

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3Q03
• Professor: D R.fisher

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Poli sci 3i03 nov 24 lecture. Coo means a strike of state, a fast decisive action, a blow to the state, a violent sudden act that seizes power from the government. Legal distinction is in the time, so the length of the uprising. Swift and surprise attack means very few people should know about it. Genocide is not a civil war but could lead to civil war. If it"s a pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) de(cid:373)o(cid:374)stratio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d uprisi(cid:374)g of that sort, (cid:449)ill (cid:374)eed (cid:373)ore people to (cid:271)e su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful. If the weaker group takes up arms to defend themselves: or if another group decides to take up arms and defend the weaker group. It could also be a part of a war. War is two sides, both takes taking up arms to fight. Idea is that old wars and new wards are temporally distinct: new wars are more recent, it is actual change in how people conduct war.