civil conflict

Civil conflict is a sustained, organized struggle within a country between the state and one or more internal groups, or among such groups themselves, involving political, social, or economic grievances and often resulting in violence.

Aliases (9)

• Roman civil war ×2
• Chinese civil conflict ×1
• Reconstruction-era political violence ×1
• Russian–Chechen conflict ×1
• civil war with international intervention ×1
• internal armed conflict ×1
• post-Soviet conflict ×1
• sectional conflict ×1
• violent political conflict ×1

Instances (15)

• Black September conflict
• Hamburg massacre ("Reconstruction-era political violence")
• Northern Expedition ("Chinese civil conflict")
• Social War
• Caesar’s civil war ("Roman civil war")
• Constantinian civil war ("Roman civil war")
• Maoist insurgency in India
• Italian Civil War ("internal armed conflict")
• Second War of Kappel
• Second Congo War ("civil war with international intervention")
• Antonovshchina
• First Chechen War ("post-Soviet conflict")
• Second Chechen War ("Russian–Chechen conflict")
• Bleeding Kansas crisis ("violent political conflict")