طرق إدارة النزاعات الأهلية

Abstract EN

Civil conflicts are disputes between two or more parties within a society, which are the result of cultural, religious, political or other differences.

They may start with minor skirmishes and then turn into disasters and tragedies, leading a country to enter a dark tunnel that threatens its existence.

However, civil conflicts are in fact "international" in the sense that, while the physical scope and the stakes of conflicts are local, they involve many external actors that fuel conflict by providing moral and logistical support to their parties.

Therefore, the international community should search for the ways and means by which the management of such conflicts can be effectively implemented in order to convert them and mitigate their violence.

This can be achieved by forcing foreign parties to stop provisioning internal parties and by managing state borders to prevent arms smuggling operations towards the inside.

key words: civil conflicts; civil wars; internal conflicts; internal wars; conflict management.