Ethnic identity wars grew from half to three-quarters of civil wars across decades

Evidence

Identity wars constituted about half of all civil wars during the 1940s and 1950s but about three-quarters of civil wars during the following decades, and the intensity of rebellions involving ethnic groups tripled between the early 1950s and the late 1980s. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 704

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• SHARE: Good statistic for anyone working on ethnic conflict or civil war literature.
• XREF: connects to: Ethnic and religious fragmentation do not predict civil war onset — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809