War

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The paper states that whether a war that is being fought is a civil war, or a war between two or more countries, war impacts those people located where the war is being conducted who are not necessarily of a political or socio-economic ideology which forms the basis of the war. The paper notes that the population directly impacted by the actions of war are not the political or economic elite who go to war for motives of self-interest. Rather, these people, soldiers and civilians, are people whose lives will not realize direct benefits from the outcome of the war, but who will, nonetheless, suffer the action of war. This paper examines the impact of war on those people and attempts an examination of the impacts of war on non-governing forces.

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Bosnia Herzegovina
Africa

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"During that early historical period, there was little that caused conflict between those various groups. That changed in the nineteenth century, when local and regional identities began emerging and indicators of nationalism began being evidenced (Friedman, 2004). However, going into the twentieth century, the nationalism of the cultural identities was subordinated to the governing forces, leading up to the post World War II Communist Soviet Union (Friedman, 2004). This is a recurring underlying similarity in those countries and regions experiencing war today, even when the subordinating authority is not the Soviet Union, there is a governing force that once it withdraws and the country achieves independence, violence ensues in a free for all grab for power and governance."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Duyvesteyn, Isabelle, and Jan Angstrom, eds. Rethinking the Nature of War. London: Frank Cass, 2005. Questia. 4 Dec. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=109146932>.
• Friedman, Francine. Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Polity on the Brink. New York: Routledge, 2004. Questia. 4 Dec. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108775016>.
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