Is the US headed towards another civil war? | Barbara F. Walter
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🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Based on her work for a CIA task force aimed at predicting civil wars, political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the rise in extremism and threats to democracies around the globe -- and paints an unsettling picture of the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:14.9 | Barbara F. Walter studies civil war and conflict around the world, and the number and frequency |
| 0:21.2 | of those kinds of conflicts keep climbing. |
| 0:24.8 | In her Ted-2023 talk, Walter offers the way to address the biggest risk factors for civil |
| 0:30.4 | war, and as a result, promotes stability and peace after the break. |
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| 1:04.4 | I'm going to talk about a threat that most people don't want to think about. |
| 1:09.4 | It's too frightening, and it doesn't seem real. |
| 1:12.5 | That threat is civil war. |
| 1:15.0 | Since 1946, over 250 civil wars have broken out, and that number continues to increase. |
| 1:23.1 | There are now almost 50% more civil wars than there were in 2001. |
| 1:29.8 | I've been setting civil wars for over 30 years. |
| 1:33.2 | I've interviewed members of Hamas in the West Bank, Exxion Fine Members in Northern Ireland, |
| 1:39.6 | former members of the FARC in Columbia. |
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