Conflict
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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In political terms, "conflict" refers to an ongoing state of hostility between two or more groups of people.
Conflict as taught for graduate and professional work in conflict resolution commonly has the definition: "when two or more parties, with perceived incompatible goals, seek to undermine each other's goal-seeking capability".
One should not confuse the distinction between the presence and absence of conflict with the difference between competition and co-operation. In competitive situations, the two or more parties each have mutually inconsistent goals, so that when either party tries to reach their goal it will undermine the attempts of the other to reach theirs. Therefore, competitive situations will by their nature cause conflict. However, conflict can also occur in cooperative situations, in which two or more parties have consistent goals, because the manner in which one party tries to reach their goal can still undermine the other.
A clash of interests, values, actions or directions often sparks a conflict. Conflicts refer to the existence of that clash. Psychologically, a conflict exists when the reduction of one motivating stimulus involves an increase in another, so that a new adjustment is demanded. The word is applicable from the instant that the clash occurs. Even when we say that there is a potential conflict we are implying that there is already a conflict of direction even though a clash may not yet have occurred so to speak
See also
- Conflict (narrative), a literary element
- Controversy, public debates and disputes
- Emotional conflict, clashing and contradictory emotions within a person
- Group conflict, cliques that vie with each other
- Organizational conflict, conflicts within and between organizations
- Workplace conflict, conflicts within a corporation such as between management and workers
- Protracted social conflict, a technical term in a theory developed by Edward Azar
- Traffic conflict, a dangerous situations in transportation
- Write–read conflict, reading uncommitted data
- Read–write conflict, unrepeatable reads
- Write–write conflict, overwriting uncommitted data
- Commit conflict, what happens in a revision control system when changes are made by different parties to the same document
- Cost of conflict, a tool which attempts to calculate the price of conflict to the human race
- Conflict resolution, how to deal with conflicts among people
- Peace and conflict studies, interdisciplinary efforts to prevent conflicts
- Conflict style inventory, a written tool for gaining insight into how people respond to conflict
- List of ongoing military conflicts that are taking place around the world and which continue to result in violent deaths
