Sustaining the Peace After Civil War

URL: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=819. Source: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. Since the end of World War II, there have been four times as many civil wars as interstate wars. For a small subset of nations civil war is a chronic condition: about half of the civil war nations have had at least two and as many as six conflicts. This book by Dr. T. David Mason presents an analytical framework that has been used to identify a set of factors that make civil war more or less likely to recur in a nation where a civil war has recently terminated.