Ethnic conflict
（重定向自Racial war）
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An ethnic conflict is a conflict between ethnic groups. It contrasts with civil war, in which a single nation or ethnic group fights among itself, and conventional warfare, in which two or more sovereign states (which may or may not be nation states) are in conflict for reasons other than ethnicity.