This is a critical aspect in our world system. Getting to know the interaction and the dynamics of conflict and what triggers conflict is as important to know the whys what. How did it start, who was involved. Most conflicts are lighted up by political factors such as weak governments, social contract and corruption, identity politics.
This brings about the levels of democracy in our system. Mature democracies tend to resolve their conflict and manage the situation through democratic participation and autocracies tend to be more repressive on their citizens and force situations.
Most conflicts are due to repressive government. Institutions that only favour a few individuals and turn a backside on most of the population. We can note that from those small groups or rather marginalized groups tend to revolt towards the government which results to conflict.
Also we can also understand that violent conflict in a particular nation are most caused by external groups. Other external players camouflage into the conflict as if they are important to the people. They actually interfere with peaceful citizens in the expense of their own interest l.
Violent conflicts in Libya, Syria are believed to be caused by external forces or entities such as the NATO or powerful states like the U.S. Potentially these states have much resources on their land and hence the ongoing violent conflicts cannot end any time soon because of interest of resources from external entities.
Political institutions try to bring up the inequality gap from acts such as corruption. These acts make up the population from not accessing much of resources as there isn’t equitable sharing of resources. Resources such as power, land, minerals have made many states fail hence the name failed states.
Identity politics have a huge role in violent conflict. People tend to identify themselves with some cultural and religious believes. Violent conflicts comes in when certain people tend to believe that their ethnic, religion or culture is superior than their fellow men. This has been seen in some parts of of the horn of Africa like Somalia where their conflict has been inflicted by their clan differences and also hutus in Rwanda.
Poverty and conflict go hand in hand. It has been argued that conflict also can cause poverty. This is clear that they are intertwined in their own way. Extreme poverty has caused recruitment of people to violent groups that indeed bring about conflicts.
Violent conflicts are politically driven whereby a certain political group believe they are superior than others and want to control all the resources available and sometimes political players sort amnesty in certain countries.
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