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  Reference for Civil war - Search.com
A civil war is "a violent conflict within a country fought by organized groups that aim to take power at the center or in a region, or to change government policies".
Civil wars that are fought over religion have tended to occur more in monotheistic than in polytheistic societies; one explanation is that the latter tend to be more "flexible" in terms of dogma, allowing for some latitude in belief.
Civil wars between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism consumed France in the Wars of Religion, the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War, Germany during the Thirty Years' War, and more recently, The Troubles of Northern Ireland.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Spanish Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Because of this, a protracted civil war ensued.
The Spanish Civil War was also an example of total war, where the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by the Legión Cóndor, as depicted by Pablo Picasso in Guernica, foreshadowed episodes of World War II such as the bombing campaign on Britain by the Nazis and the bombing of Dresden by the Allies.
In the run-up to the Civil War it was led by Emilio Mola and José Sanjurjo, and latterly Franco.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Spanish_Civil_War   (4550 words)

  
 War - War Search: Your Guide To The World's Military History
Wars are seen as the result of evolved psychological traits that are turned on by either being attacked or by a population perception of a bleak future.
Civil war is a war where the forces in conflict belong to the same country or empire or other political entity.
At the outbreak of World War I, the writer Thomas Mann wrote, "Is not peace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?" This attitude has been embraced by societies from Sparta and Rome in the ancient world to the fascist states of the 1930s.
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 Iran-Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Iran-Iraq War, also known as the Imposed War (جنگ تحمیلی, Jang-e-tahmīlī) in Iran, and Saddām's Qādisiyyah (قادسيّة صدّام, Qādisiyyat Saddām) in Iraq, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988.
The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, demands for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime, and secret encouragement by the US administration (Jimmy Carter, conveyed through Saudi Arabia) which was embroiled in a dispute with the new regime in Iran.
According to the investigation done by Ted Koppel, during the war, U.S. navy used to set decoys inside the Persian Gulf to lure out the Iranian gunboats and destroy them, and at the time USS Vincennes shot down the Iranian airline, it was performing such an operation.
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 Graduate Studies News: lost, but then found
The war, which officially ended with a peace agreement in January 2005, continues to this day and is one of many successive conflicts to devastate Sudan and its people during the past several decades.
The war was fought primarily in southern Sudan and was a continuation of a north-south conflict spanning 1955 to 1972.
The terms of the 2005 peace agreement ending the civil war are among the factors fueling the present conflict.
www.southernct.edu /grad/news/lostbutthenfound_87   (1122 words)

  
 Iran-Iraq War - dKosopedia
The Iran-Iraq War (also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the Imposed War in Iran) was a war between Iran and Iraq, lasting from September 22, 1980 until August 20, 1988.
The war began with an Iraqi invasion of Iran which advanced quickly, then stabilized into a defensive position for the bulk of the war, and then advanced again later in the war.
The war was characterized by extreme brutality, including the use of chemical weapons, by both countries, and especially tabun, by Iraq.
dkosopedia.com /wiki/Iran-Iraq_War   (1320 words)

  
 International Crisis Group - Love Thy Neighbor
Following the second round of IGAD talks in May 1994, the IGAD mediators put forward the DoP, outlining what they felt was the basis for a sustainable resolution of the civil war.
Although the SPLA's original vision was focused around the concept of a "New Sudan," based on democracy, secularism, and equal rights for all, the bloody civil war had led to a strong movement for an independent South, and a Southern self-determination referendum had become a core demand of the SPLA by the 1997 talks.
Despite this trend, the new conflict in Darfur is already dragging a new section of the county into civil war, with Sudan's western neighbors at risk of repeating the experience of the IGAD countries over the past 20 years.
www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=2678&l=1   (2198 words)

  
 <Sudanese Lost Boy Visits DCC>
Pougkeepsie, NY – Sudanese Lost Boy Valentino Achak Deng – the subject of the new novel What is the What by Dave Eggers – will speak at Dutchess Community College on Friday, April 20 at 12:00 noon in the James and Betty Hall Theater, Dutchess Hall, at the main campus in Poughkeepsie.
Deng will discuss his experiences as a refugee in the civil war in Sudan, his view of the current situation in Sudan and Dafur, and the process of collaborating on the novel about his life.
That plane was grounded in the wake of the September 11 attacks, and he and 40 other Sudanese had to deplane and wait weeks for another opportunity to fly to the United States.
www.sunydutchess.edu /news/SudaneseLostBoyVisitsDCC.html   (611 words)

  
 Sudanese refugee
Ghack, who will graduate in May with a civil engineering degree, is one of the "lost boys of Sudan," the name given to more than 27,000 boys displaced or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War between 1983 and 2003.
Fleeing from his Sudanese village to Ethiopia was a three-week journey.
During that time, Ghack and a friend were protected by an older man, and the group managed to avoid the attacks from wild animals and from armed forces while crossing the Sudanese border.
www.engr.uky.edu /news/Sudaneserefugee.htm   (833 words)

  
 The History Guy: The War List
--The Wars and Conflicts of Burma/Myanmar from the Anglo-Burmese Wars to the pro-democracy Myanmar uprising of 2007.
The wars and conflicts of Germany from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 to the War in Afghanistan.
These wars are placed in the Anglo-French category as an illustration of their placement in the pattern of wars between those two countries.
www.historyguy.com /War_list.html   (4880 words)

  
 Miraya 101 FM - Comprehensive Peace Agreement
The civil war in Sudan can be divided into two phases, the first civil war and the second civil war.
The first civil war, also known as Anyanya One, was a conflict from 1955 to 1972 in which the southern rebels demanded more autonomy for the south.
During the course of the war, there were numerous attempts by various external actors, including neighboring states, concerned donors, international powers, as well as the parties themselves, to bring the conflict to an end.
www.mirayafm.org /comprehensive_peace_agreement   (525 words)

  
 infinitesphere
As a rebel group it was formed in 1983 by rebellious south sudanese soldiers of the Sudanese Army based in Bor, Pochalla and Ayod (Bor Mutiny).These joined remnants of the Anyanya rebels of the First Sudanese Civil War based in Ethiopia.
The war has been largely described in religious and ethnic terms, and also as a struggle for control of the water and oil resources located in the southern and the western Sudan.
The Sudanese government accused Uganda and Eritrea of supporting the SPLA/M. The group is alleged to have operated on the Ugandan side of the Sudanese border with Uganda at the southern limit of Sudan.
infinitesphere.blogspot.com /2008/03/this-article-is-part-of-series-politics.html   (741 words)

  
 Sudanese Baptists reunite after years-long division
They insist the division was borne of administrative necessity, after thousands of Christians were displaced from the north as a result of the 12-year-long Second Sudanese Civil War.
The war pitted the mainly Arab and Muslim north of the vast nation against the mainly Christian and animist ethnic fls of the south.
The establishment of the Sudan Interior Church South “was a pragmatic attempt to minister to a dispersed church divided by warring factions,” Brown said.
www.abpnews.com /3138.article.print   (462 words)

  
 Adventist World : Window Into Sudan
Two civil wars and the recent regional violence in the west-central region of Darfur have decimated the infrastructure of Sudan during the past half century.
Civil unrest, adverse weather, and weak world agricultural prices have kept most of the society below the poverty line.
During the civil strife of the 1960s the church lost track of all members.
www.adventistworld.org /article.php?id=91   (493 words)

  
 Twentieth Century Atlas - Top Ranked Atrocities
The Russian Civil War (#5), which paved the way for the rise of Stalin, was an integral outgrowth of World War One.
If it weren't for the fact that the Second World War is considered to be a single event, we could probably consider the Eastern and Western halves of the Hemoclysm to be distinctly unrelated pieces of history.
The death toll for the entire Congolese Civil War (1998-2003) is reckoned now to be 3.3M, but in 2000, it was calculated to have been 1.7M.
users.erols.com /mwhite28/atrox.htm   (1097 words)

  
 Terms
First Sudanese Civil War: Conflict from 1955-1972, which resulted in the death of half a million people.
Second Sudanese Civil War: Conflict that began in 1983 and continues today.
The Second Sudanese Civil War is seen as more of a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War, as the conflict still lies between the Muslim north and Christian south.
operationsudan.org /terms.html   (773 words)

  
 Awer Bul
Born in the backwoods of Sudan in the early 1980s and forced to escape the violence of the Second Sudanese Civil War, Bul fled to Kenya, by himself, where he lived in the wild for at least six years as a "Lost Boy", with very little food and no health care.
This was the only way he could deal with and depict the horrors he saw on a day-to-day basis amidst the terror of war in Southern Sudan.
Unable to speak English, Bul was able to communicate the travesties of the war in Sudan through his art.
www.arnettandassociates.com /Bul.htm   (551 words)

  
 The Gargoyle - Flagler College's Newspaper
The war erupted in 1983 when the northern portion of Sudan, which is predominantly Muslim, began attacking the southern part of Sudan, which is not Muslim, because they would not conform to Islamic beliefs.
The war lasted from 1983 to 2005, throughout that time more than 2 million Sudanese people were killed and 4 million were displaced from their homes.
Although the Sudanese refugees in the United States no longer have to fear for their lives, they still had to overcome obstacles when they made it to the United States.
gargoyle.flagler.edu /?p=1505   (859 words)

  
 Sudanese refugee will attend GW - News
In the second Sudanese civil war Joseph De Mabior Deng, lost his family and found himself among 4 million other displaced refugees.
He is a recipient of the University's first Banaa scholarship, a full scholarship awarded to an individual who has experienced war in Sudan.
Banaa, otherwise known as the Sudan Educational Empowerment Network, is a national organization that identifies talented young survivors of the war in Sudan and offers them full undergraduate education at U.S. universities on the condition that these individuals return to Sudan upon graduation and commit to public service.
media.www.gwhatchet.com /media/storage/paper332/news/2008/04/10/News/Sudanese.Refugee.Will.Attend.Gw-3316105.shtml   (587 words)

  
 Baptist World Alliance - Sudan church unites
First constituted in 1963, the Sudan Interior Church (SIC) divided during the Second Sudanese Civil War from 1983 to 2005, during which more than two million people died and an estimated four million Sudanese were displaced.
The installation of SIC-South was a pragmatic attempt to minister to a dispersed church divided by warring factions,” said Elijah Brown, who has studied the state of the church in Sudan, and who is a member of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Commission on Freedom and Justice.
After a second meeting in November, a third meeting, held April 1 to 5, 2008, in the southern Sudanese town of Renk, resulted in unification.
www.bwanet.org /default.aspx?pid=815   (652 words)

  
 BuzzFlash Review: What Is the What (Hardcover)
Born in Sudan before the second Sudanese Civil War, his village at Marial Bai was overrun by mercenaries hired by the Islamic government.
He is forced, as a young boy, to escape across the country, becoming one of the Lost Boys of Sudan in the middle of the beginnings of the crisis in Darfur.
There are no winners in a civil war, and even in the refugee camps, where relief organizations help as best they can (themselves sometimes tied up by bureaucracy and corruption), we clearly feel the tragedy and trauma that the situation over there creates.
www.buzzflash.com /store/reviews/482   (655 words)

  
 Variety On the Town: History channeled
Pitt was right - there is a civil war under way in Sudan, insofar as there are at least two armed rebel groups actively opposing the Sudanese government in the west of the country - one of them being a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement, the other being the Justice & Equality Movement.
There is an ongoing civil war in Sudan if you care to do a thorough research on this topic.
BTW, D Harris, if you are trying to suggest in your last paragraph that the civil war in Sudan has been reduced to just a small corner of the country, you might like to know that the Darfur area is about the size of FRANCE.
weblogs.variety.com /variety_on_the_town/2007/01/history_channel.html   (2110 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Uganda - Uganda's Other Neighbors--Sudan, Rwanda, and Zaire | Ugandan Information Resource
Relations with Sudan had been primarily concerned with the consequences of the Sudanese civil war for the first decade after Uganda's independence.
In 1983 a new phase began with the second Sudanese civil war, which was complicated in 1986 by an outbreak of fighting in northern Uganda between remnants of Obote's former Ugandan army and the NRA.
By 1990 the border had become considerably less significant in disrupting relations between the two countries because Sudanese rebels controlled most of it, because the northern Ugandan rebels who had used Sudan as a sanctuary were largely defeated, and because most of the Ugandan refugees in Sudan had returned home.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/uganda/uganda128.html   (1014 words)

  
 Refugee recalls flight from civil war - The Daily Princetonian
African refugees face a difficult transition to the United States, a Sudanese refugee and a film director said at a screening of "The Lost Boys of Sudan" on Friday.
Joseph Deng, a U.S. citizen who fled Sudan during the country's second civil war in the 1990s, is one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan," the International Rescue Committee's program to resettle Sudanese refugees in the United States during the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Mylan emphasized the connection between the Sudanese war and the current crisis in Darfur.
www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2006/11/20/news/16667.shtml   (514 words)

  
 Uganda - Sudan, Rwanda, and Zaire
The Ugandan government regarded the war as pitting Africans against Arabs and thus tended to be sympathetic to the southern desire for secession.
Following the assumption of power by a left-wing Sudanese regime in 1969, Obote tilted his loyalties toward the Sudanese government in order to strengthen his own radical credentials.
Many southern Sudanese took advantage of Amin's ethnic ties to southern Sudan to join the Ugandan Army and take part in its indiscriminate attacks on Ugandan civilians.
countrystudies.us /uganda/68.htm   (881 words)

  
 SPLA - Mahalo
The SPLA, or Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, is a Southern Sudanese rebel group and political party that advocates Southern Sudanese autonomy.
From 1983 to 2005, the SPLA fought against the Sudanese government in the Second Sudanese Civil War.
In 1996, the United States contributed nearly $20 million in weapons and military equipment to Southern Sudanese rebels seeking to overthrow Omar al-Bashir.
www.mahalo.com /SPLA   (575 words)

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