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  2. Fault line war - Wikipedia

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    A fault line war is one that takes place between two or more identity groups (usually religious or ethnic) from different civilizations. [1] It is a communal conflict between states or groups from different civilizations that has become violent. These wars may take place between states, between nongovernmental groups, or between states and ...

  3. Peace treaty - Wikipedia

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    A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties. [1] It is different from an armistice , which is an agreement to stop hostilities; a surrender , in which an army agrees to give up arms; or a ceasefire or truce , in which the parties may ...

  4. Democratic peace theory - Wikipedia

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    Wars tend very strongly to be between neighboring states. Gleditsch showed that the average distance between democracies is about 8000 miles, the same as the average distance between all states. He believes that the effect of distance in preventing war, modified by the democratic peace, explains the incidence of war as fully as it can be explained.

  5. Effects of war - Wikipedia

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    Present-day internal wars generally take a larger toll on civilians than state wars. This is due to the increasing trend where combatants have made targeting civilians a strategic objective. [2] A state conflict is an armed conflict that occurs with the use of armed force between two parties, of which one is the government of a state. [4] "

  6. Rapprochement - Wikipedia

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    In international relations, a rapprochement, which comes from the French word rapprocher ("to bring together"), is a re-establishment of cordial relations between two countries. [1] [2] This may be done due to a mutual antagonist, as the German Empire was seen by both France and the British Empire at the time of their signing of the Entente ...

  7. List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet–Japanese War was a short conflict that lasted less than a month in 1945. However, despite this, the Soviets refused to sign the Treaty of San Francisco and did not unilaterally end the state of war. Ultimately, the state of war was not formally ended until the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, [9] 11 years later. Poland ...

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    This category includes grief, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and other forms of moral injury and mental disorders caused or inflamed by war. Between the start of the Afghan war in October 2001 and June 2012, the demand for military mental health services skyrocketed, according to Pentagon data. So did substance abuse within the ranks.

  9. International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict - Wikipedia

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    There is an international consensus that some of the actions of the states involved in the Arab–Israeli conflict violate international law, but some of the involved states dispute this. In the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel pre-empted what many Israeli leaders believed to be an imminent Arab attack [1] and invaded and occupied territory that had ...