Opponents of an intervention in Syria like to point to the sobering experiences of Afghanistan and Iraq. But the Bosnian wars of the 1990s provide a more accurate model.

Why is Syria at War and Who is Fighting? A Brief History of the Syrian Conflict before Trump’s Military Intervention

Learn about the world’s top hotspots with the Center for Preventive Action’s (CPA) interactive Global Conflict Tracker.

Ethnic in South Sudan has a long history among South Sudan’s varied ethnic groups.South Sudan has 64 tribes with the largest being the Dinkas, who constitute about 35% of the population and predominate in government.

Can Ethnic Federalism Help to Manage Ethnic Conflicts and Accommodate National Diversity? Tigrai Online, Oct. 11, 2012

Mali, Sudan, and Ethnic Conflict in Northern Africa (also available in French here). Africa, for all its beauty and rich history, has always been a complex and often harsh continent.

Kosovo conflict: Kosovo conflict, conflict (1998–99) in which ethnic Albanians opposed ethnic Serbs and the government of Yugoslavia (the rump of the former federal state, comprising the republics of Serbia and Montenegro) in Kosovo.

In 1918 Woodrow Wilson committed to an Allied intervention in a reeling Russia and stumbled into a brewing Cold War

Armed Humanitarian Intervention. Humanitarian intervention is a use of military force to address extraordinary suffering of people, such as genocide or similar, large-scale violation of basic of human rights, where people’s suffering results from their own government’s actions or failures to act.

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started in late February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (by this time, consisting of the Republics of Montenegro and Serbia), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the …