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What Is Civil War in the Digital Age? — with Barbara F. Walter

Your Undivided Attention

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What's Motivating These People?

It's actually the ones that had once been powerful politically and economically, and have either lost that power, or they see that they are losing power. They're the ones who feel this ex essential threat to their culture to the quality of life a and often are tolerated so that they can mobilize. You know, a good example of this would be the moslems in the southern philippines and the mendenau region of the philippines. And when it became clear that there was nothing that they could do peacefully to maintain their political control and maintain control of their land, that's when they shifted to violence. What's motivating them is really interesting. It's this deep sense of resentment

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