civil conflict
Domestic armed struggle
Civil conflict is armed struggle within a single country—between government forces and insurgents, or between rival factions.
The term is often used interchangeably with civil war, though civil conflict may suggest lower intensity or less formal warfare: The region has seen decades of civil conflict.
It emphasizes internal rather than international dimensions of violence.
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- political instabilityFragile governmental conditions
- power vacuumAbsence of governing authority
- truth commissionsOfficial bodies investigating past atrocities
- peace negotiationsDiplomatic talks ending conflict
displacement · hearts and minds · poverty · separatist movements · proxy war · ethnic cleansing · ethnic tensions · inequality · colonial legacy · human rights violations · refugee crises · rebellion · failed state · war crimes · mass graves · scorched earth · blood diamond · sectarian violence
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
- Roman Civil WarJulius Caesar, Pompey, Rubicon, Roman Republic, Mark Antony
- Central African Republicprefectures, CFA franc, landlocked, Carnot, French language
- Congo HistoryBelgian Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo River, atrocities
- ColombiaBogota, Medellin, Cali, Colombian flag, Colombian coffee
- decolonizationanticolonialism, independence movement, independence movements, freedom fighter, anti-colonialism
civil conflictpeacetime
Absence of armed conflict
national unity · reconciliation · domestic tranquility · political stability
civil conflictcivil order
Maintained societal stability
social order · national stability · rule of law · social cohesion