Long civil wars lead to many more deaths (both military and civilian), wreck economies, and generate massive flows of refugees and internally displaced persons. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
In addition to its mental health consequences, the exceedingly long civil war in Guatemala resulted in displacement of 1 million people from their homes and workplaces, over 200,000 civilian deaths, destruction of hundreds of villages, crops and fields, the elimination of local leaders and authorities and, in the worst cases, torture, rape, and collective extermination of entire families and communities. (sciencedaily.com)
Though their formative political experiences were during the decade - long civil war between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, they are, in party terms, «postwar» politicians, desperate to move on. (newstatesman.com)