Why Men Rebel By Ted Gurr

Fourth main causes of civil war is, relative deprivation and discontent. Ted Gurr the writer of “Why men rebel" defines relative deprivation as “a perceived discrepancy between men’s value expectations and their value capabilities”. The theory claims that the coincidence of “deprivation-Induced discontent and sense of identities such as cultural identities is the main factor of political mobilization”. The theory of Gur is similar to the theory of Stewart that expresses when there are political, social and economic inequalities combine with cultural difference it could become a powerful mobilizing agent that lead to political violence (Longer). When the legitimate desires and expectation, are blocked or are limited by society or government
According to Singer, “Egoistic deprivation refers to a single individual’s feeling of comparative deprivation” and “fraternal deprivation, also called group deprivation, refers to the discontent arising from the status of the entire group as compared to a referent group”( Flynn). These movements forms from every individual feeling of relative deprivations and then they make the group with a greater strategy to gain individual and collective desires and expectations. The reason that why sometimes the relative deprivations causes a movement and sometimes even violence is that most of the society even though are not satisfy with the condition of their lives but still they do not learn to fight for them. And even sometime people do not know that it is their right to fight or they should find a solutions. They are satisfy with the difficult way of living and thinks that it is life like they are living. Like in Afghanistan, most of the provinces have no access to an accurate and healthy life and the security is not good, most of the days they lose their family members in bomb attack or fighting by Taliban but they do not ask government to do something for
The main causes of civil war are poverty, ethnic division, Horizontal inequalities and relative derivative within a country. When there is poverty in a country there is higher risk of civil war than other countries. In some points civil war and poverty make stronger each other and have direct relation. When poverty rises civil war rises and when civil war rises poverty rises. Ethnic diversities also increase civil wars. It usually happen because of identity. As identity as one of the most important thing for people they fight for it to keep it stronger or secured. As mentioned, there are different kind of horizontal inequalities such as social horizontal inequality, political horizontal inequalities, economical horizontal inequalities, and cultural horizontal inequalities. Relative derivative also bring civil war in a country. When the people feel that their desire, choices and expectations are limited or blocked by society or government they start fighting to make a greater land for their desires and choices. Understanding the causes of civil wars help us to stop the civil war or decrease that. By looking to the causes of civil war that are mentioned in this paper, 3 out of 4 causes can come under the horizontal inequalities. Such as, poverty, ethnic diversities and geographical division which lead the society to civil war are the reason of