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This category of conflict incudes the territorial disputes, or the disputes, which
determine the status of a territory. Generally, such conflicts are very hard to resolve,
because each involved party is directed only towards victory.
There are also, conflicts with negative winnings amount, where there are neither
winnings nor losses
The majority of political conflicts, ethnic and international ones, are the non zero-sum
conflicts. Even if the purposes and the interests are contradictory, they wont be
diametrically opposite. It means that after their realization, the sum will not be zero.
This kind of conflicts is also known as mixed interests conflicts
The most complicated conflicts are those, which are generated by the conflict of ideas.
This idea leads us to the most common used classification of international conflicts. This
one contains 5 types of international conflicts:
Ethnic
This type of conflict occurs between ethnic groups that represent a large cluster of
people who share ancestral, language, cultural or religious ties and common identity.
This feeling of identity and affiliation to the certain ethnicity form the basis for
nationalist emotions that can cause the contradiction with the other ethnic groups. The
catalyst of this kind of conflicts can be territorial control of any certain district, or just
intolerance, racism, or xenophobia. The examples of such conflicts are the Kosovo
conflict or Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Religious
We can not deny the importance of the religions, because it represents the core of
communitys value system in the biggest part of the world. So, people, or sometimes
even nations, whose religious practices differ are very easily disregarded and treated as
unworthy. This fact, fueled by the intolerance, discrimination and rights violations,
influenced the fundamentalist movements, secular political organization. The running
conflict from Yemen is one of the most typical religious conflicts.
Ideological
Ideology means a set of conscious and unconscious ideas which make up one's
goals, expectations, and motivations. It can be as powerful as, or even stronger than
religion in his force to mobilize people. This is why the ideological conflicts can be very
dangerous. One of the most relevant examples of this kind of conflict is The Cold War.
Territorial
This type of conflicts that can be considered as classic one, begins in condition when a
territory is required by the two countries or even more. For example we can take the
situation from Israel, Cyprus or Kuril Islands.
Economic
The only type of conflict that occurs without using military force, but this fact is not
making it less inhuman. The consequences of this kind of conflict can be equally
disastrous as the wars consequences. The battlefield of this antagonism cannot be seen
but it also cannot be unfelt because it strikes the financial system, banking system,
trade relation, the Gross Domestic Product , and ,generally, all the economical activities
of a country, what affect the wellbeing of the citizens. The tactics of this kind of conflicts
are embargos or the sanctions.
To sum up I would like to say that international conflicts are regular things that are
inevitable at the current stage of human evolution. In order to study the international
conflicts, the analysts of political sciences use several criteria for their classification.
Determination of the typology of conflict can help to find a way to its resolution. The
most common, liberal, solving instrument is considered to be the federalization, which
can be seen in such conflicts as Kosovo or Cyprus.