tribal warfare
Intergroup armed hostility
Tribal warfare is armed conflict between tribes or clan-based groups, typically over territory, resources, or revenge for past injuries.
The term extends to intense rivalry between any factions defined by group identity rather than ideology: The office descended into tribal warfare between sales and engineering.
In this figurative sense, it emphasizes loyalty to one's own group over rational cooperation.
- ancient tribesEarly collective human societies
- clan feudsProlonged conflicts between kinship groups
- warrior traditionsAncestral combat practices passed down
- war paintCeremonial facial markings
- battle cryShout to rally fighters
territorial disputes · ethnic violence · peace treaties · peace pipe · honor codes · resource scarcity · land disputes · warriors · reconciliation efforts · blood feuds · blood revenge · cattle raids · social hierarchies · survival strategies · raid · militia groups · oral histories · ceremonial weapons
- conflictsargument, fight, war, battle, dispute
- CeltsCelts, Gauls, Britons, Galatians, Celtiberians
- Maori HistoryMaori, Aotearoa, Treaty of Waitangi, waka, pa
- Pacific HistoryPolynesia, Pacific Islands, Melanesia, Micronesia, Fiji
- Roman BritainHadrian's Wall, Londinium, Roman forts, Roman roads, Roman occupation
- Steppe HistoryGenghis Khan, Mongol Empire, nomadic tribes, nomads, nomadic culture
tribal warfareconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
total war · global conflict · nuclear war · modern warfare · mechanized warfare
tribal warfaretribal unity
Cohesion within ancestral group
peaceful coexistence · confederation · reconciliation · collective security · diplomatic relations
tribal warfarecosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
globalism · universalism · world citizenship · international community