Internal war:  a cross-cultural study

". . . societies in which anyone can initiate war are more likely to have internal war than societies in which an official initiates war" (283)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Phi coefficient	Not Supported	above .10	.23	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Initiating Party	Independent	Instigation Of War
Internal Warfare	Dependent	Inter-community Relations

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Divale, William Tulio	1976	"Patrilocality should be correlated with internal war and matrilocality with external war" (61)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	". . . we . . . expect that societies with internal warfare would be more apt to have lineages than those with purely external war . . ." (80)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Divale, William Tulio	1976	"Internal war should be correlated with the presence of peacemaking mechanisms and external war with their absence" (61)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Divale, William Tulio	1976	"Internal war should be correlated with more stable peace and external war with unstable peace" (61)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sosis, Richard	2007	Societies with internal warfare will be positively associated only with nonpermanent markers.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author