A civil war in Lebanon? Is it the solution for the Lebanese crises?  Ever since the Lebanese revolution in 2019 started and Lebanese have been hearing that there might be a possibility of a civil war.  What happened in 2019 in Lebanon? In 2019, Lebanese revolted mainly because of the sectarianism that exists in the country. After the revolution, people started saying that a civil war might take place in Lebanon because of the conflicts that are arising between different sectors and religions in Lebanon. However, I wanted to check if actually a civil war is the solution for the Lebnase economic crisis or not.

Therefore, I analyzed data about GDP growth % in Lebanon over the past 10 years but more specifically over the year 2006. Well, that’s because in 2006, a war disrupted in Lebanon due to many conflicts in the region. Thus, I wanted to check if the 2006 war that happened was beneficial or not to the Lebanese economy. 

As we can see in the below graph, GDP growth was the lowest in 2006 the year the war happened, which means that the 2006 war has tremendous impact on the decline of the GDP growth. Having low GDP growth has many negative effects on the country and on its citizens. It causes people to loose jobs, inflation to increase, and living standards to decrease.

In conclusion, a civil war in Lebanon should NOT happen because of the war’s negative effects, and so we would not go into an even more severe economic crisis. The solutions for the conflicts that are happening between different sectors and religions could range from educating people to be more open and accepting one another, decrease socio-economic gap and encourage civil soceity development and many more solutions that are far away from a civil war. SAY NO TO WAR.