Introduction
Scholars have debated the different variables that can play an important part in affecting civil wars and even the framework for which to define these types of wars …show more content…
As a result, civil wars are grouped into two separate categories, (1) conflicts for control of the central government; or (2) conflicts over local or regional interests. In the first category, “the insurgent forces seek to overthrow the existing national regime and replace it with one that is more receptive to their material, cultural, or psychic interests (Sarkees and Wayman 2010).” In the second category, “the insurgents fight in order to modify the national regime’s treatment of this particular region or group of people, to replace the local regime with a friendlier one, or to secede from the larger statewide political system in order to set up their own regime (Sarkees and Wayman