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This study is mainly focused on how civilizational conflict develops through multiple layers consisting of language intersecting with identity formation, ethnic divisions, and religious beliefs joined by post-colonial practices. This study highlights how these elements, which tend to stay isolated from each other, share deep connections because powerful entities historically worked to create strict civilizational structures and social hierarchies. The chapter studies how modern conflicts emerged from colonial disruptions of indigenous cultures and foreign governance systems that were enforced upon native populations. This study also challenges the dominance of Eurocentric paradigms in international relations and critiques the tendency to universalize Western experiences as normative. It instead calls for a re-evaluation of how civilizational narratives are constructed, maintained, and contested. Through this framework, the chapter establishes that civilizational conflict is not a clash of fixed identities but a dynamic struggle over meaning, memory, and power in a world still shaped by colonial histories.