Civil War

A civil war is a prolonged armed conflict between groups that inhabit the same state. Typical civil wars are fought to replace a government or gain concessions from the government, or to break away and form a new state. In some cases, the government is not a party to the conflict.[1]

## Partial List of Civil Wars[edit]

* Seventeenth Century
* English Civil War
* Nineteenth Century
* Chile (1929–30)
* American Civil War
* Chile (1891)
* Twentieth Century
* Mexico (1911–20)
* China (1945–49)
* Irish Civil War
* Russian Civil War
* Spanish Civil War

## Bibliography[edit]

* Malanczuk, Peter. Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law, 7th ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ Malanczuk, 318