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Correlates of War

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Jan 20, 2026
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What specific indicators do scholars use to declare a civil war has begun?

Scholars do not declare civil war on intuition but by a set of measurable indicators: a violence threshold (commonly 1,000 battle‑related deaths per year in a country), the presence of organized armed...

Jan 20, 2026

How do fact‑checkers classify a conflict as a 'war' versus a 'skirmish' or 'ceasefire'?

Fact‑checkers and legal analysts treat the labels "war," "skirmish," and "ceasefire" as legal and factual determinations grounded in objective criteria—primarily the identity and organization of parti...