tribal conflict
Intergroup armed dispute
Tribal conflict is fighting or hostility between groups defined by ethnic, clan, or kinship identity.
The term appears in discussions of Africa and the Middle East, though critics note it can oversimplify complex political situations by reducing them to ancient hatreds: The media blamed tribal conflict, ignoring the role of colonial borders.
Sometimes used loosely for any clash between identity-based factions.
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- forced migrationInvoluntary mass relocation
- guerrilla warfareIrregular combat using ambushes
- ancestral landsFamily territory through generations
- truth commissionsOfficial bodies investigating past atrocities
displacement · clan elders · resource scarcity · cattle raids · mediation · arms embargoes · peace treaties · territorial disputes · historical grievances · power-sharing · feuds · raids · burning villages · rival factions · truce · peace talks · wound · no man's land
tribal conflicttribal unity
Cohesion within ancestral group
social harmony · peaceful coexistence · brotherhood · solidarity · concord
tribal conflictcivil war
Domestic armed conflict
conventional warfare · total war · global conflict · international conflict
tribal conflictcosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
universalism · assimilation · national unity · intermarriage · cultural fusion