Marie Olson Lounsbery is Assistant Professor of Political Science at East Carolina University. She pioneered approaches to teaching about civil wars and is the author of several articles on civil war and conflict resolution. She has been involved in several research projects examining the causes and resolution of civil wars and ethnopolitical violence. Frederic Pearson is the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. He is the author of The Global Spread of Arms (Westview, 1994), Arms and Warfare (University of South Carolina Press, 1994), and Arms and Ethnic Conflict (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). In addition, he has twice been a Fulbright Scholar and had served as consultant to the US Commission on National Security.

• Preface1. Civil War in the Contemporary Era2. The Causes of Civil War: Individual and Group Analysis3. State-Level Factors Leading to Civil War4. International Effects on Civil Wars5. Conflict Processes During Civil Wars6. The Resolution of Civil Wars7. The Aftermath of Civil WarAppendix: A List of Intrastate Conflicts, 1946-2000ReferencesIndex