"... there were a variety of ways to define what constituted a civil war. One methods requires the conflict to claim 1,000 lives overall. Another method says unrest can only be categorised as a civil war if it results in 1,000 deaths each year.Other definitions have much lower thresholds, ranging between one casualty and 25 casualties per year."
Halvard Buhaug, senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo's (Prio)
Centre for the Study of Civil War.
Centre for the Study of Civil War.
According to Buhaug Climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa,...traditional factors - such as poverty and social tensions - were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts.
"Climate variability in Africa does not seem to have a significant impact on the risk of civil war,"
"If you apply a number of different definitions of conflict and various different ways to measure climate variability, most of these measurements will turn out not to be associated with each other."
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