Civil War and Poverty The Role of Poverty in Tajik Civil War

This thesis deals with the civil war correlating poverty with the focus on the civil conflict of Tajikstan 1992- 1997. Responding to civil wars is difficult because the root causes of the conflicts are complex. Many states of Middle East, Asia and Africa experienced civil conflict, which erupted with sharp economic decline. The question raised here then is, why poor nations have the more probability of civil war rather than rich countries - academic researches on the causes of conflict demonstrate compellingly that poor countries are at an increase risk of civil conflict. The argument of the research is that, poverty alone is not the cause of civil war, its state institutions that cause poverty and increase the risk of civil war. This thesis focuses on interrelation of civil war and poverty. And answers the question, whether poverty is the principal reason for why poor countries are more civil war prone. The central question of the research is why there is a linkage between civil war and poverty?. Analyzing the situation, this research employs the model of intra war correlate poverty used by World Bank “Breaking the Conflict Trap ” to explore the motives that effect civil war, in particular economic factor that mostly impact poor counties by slowing the countries developing process. And it comes that, the low income areas suffer from it more because they are more vulnerable to civil war. The central point is that, it‟s not only poverty that causes civil conflict but civil conflict also effects poverty, by poverty it means, the economic factors that served to make the poor nation poorer . All this can be more clearly seen in the experience of the low income countries. Keywords: Civil war, Poverty, Tajik civil war.