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The recorded history of political violence, especially with regards to civil wars, The recorded history of political violence, especially with regards to civil wars, reveals that civil wars have shaped the political hierarchy and guarded against territorial disintegration in some states, led to vulnerable sectarian settlements, or territorial disintegration in others. All civil wars have consistently however carried an unmistakable human cost of death and suffering in addition to wide range displacements of communities and destruction of vital infrastructure. This course will unpack the complexity of civil wars, its causes, why it persists, how civil wars end and what the reconciliation and rebuilding efforts entail. Our main case studies are Rwanda and the Lebanese civil wars, in addition to the Algerian, Iraq and Sudan civil wars.
