True or False Questions:
1. A state may back a rebel group in order to force regime change in a country. T/F
2. The primary commitment problem for rebel groups to lay down their arms for peace is that they do not know whether the government they are fighting will implement its committments once the rebel group has laid down its arms. T/F
3. Russia's war on Ukraine is an example of an intra-state war. T/F
4. One of the most successful ways to reduce the likelihood of civil war is to engage in sustained development activities in all areas of a country, and practice democratic methods of governance. T/F
5. Whether a state slides into civil war has a great deal to not only with the government and its mobilized opponents, but also those regional and international actors that take sides in a conflict, providing funding, weapons, and other means of protection to the group (s) they favor. T/F