Civil War, Civil PeaceMore than two hundred wars have been fought in the past halfcentury. Nearly all have been civil wars, and at the beginning of the twenty first century, more than thirty civil wars were being fought. The rules of interstate war do not apply; each atrocity provokes retribution, and civil war takes on a brutal dynamic of its own. Civil War, Civil Peace challenges common but simplistic explanations of war, including greed, gender, and long standing