POLS 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Psychological Trauma, Opportunism, Information Asymmetry
1 Dec 2018
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Most common type of major conflict since ever. Soviet union breaks up and a bunch of the smaller countries have civil wars. Cold war was great for civil wars. U. s. and ussr didn"t really want to fight each other, but got involved in smaller conflicts. Number of civil wars goes down in the 90s because the countries paying for them stopped paying. Civilians are more likely to die in cws than conventional wars. Psychological trauma clear among those exposed to severe war violence and not. Commanders that recruit (esp. abduct) insurgents use gang rape as. Latter two occur in all wars, but might be more common in cws. Revolutions are just a subset of civil war. Note: these are factors that the bargaining explanation often underemphasizes. In 1990, tutsi refugees invade and attempt to overthrow hutu-led government. President"s plane shot down in april 1994. Coup starts with a massacre of un peacekeepers and moderate hutu officials.
