According to the United States Institute of Peace (2011), conflicts happen on different levels. Look at the examples to understand these different levels.
Personal Conflict
Example: A conflict between a bride and her mother in-law.
Local Conflict
Example: A conflict amongst the political parties Goran, PUK, and KDP.
National Conflict
Example: A conflict over oil revenues between KRG and the central government in Bagdad.
International Conflict
Example: A conflict between Iraq and the US.
Conflicts, Punctuation and Capitalization
Study this page to learn more about punctuation, capitalization and conflicts
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Brainstorm Elements of a Conflict
Answer these 6 simple question to analyse a conflict
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Issue(s): what is the conflict about?
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Parties: who is involved in the conflict?
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Relationship: what is the relationship between the people in the conflict?
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History: what is the history of the conflict?
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Styles: how have the parties chosen to deal with the conflict?
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Management: what is the history of the efforts to manage the conflict?
What are the rules?
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Language for Descriptions
Tip:
When you describe, be careful not to include your opinion. One way to avoid evaluating is to be careful with your use of adjectives and adverbs.
Practice What You Have Learn
Describe a conflict in your country (150 words). Check your punctuation and capitalization carefully.
Type up your paragraph in a Word document and submit it on our page or show it to your language helper.
Look at the example below to get inspired. This student wrote about a national conflict over Kirkuk.
The Conflict over Kirkuk
By Vian
There are four different types of conflict: personal, local, national, and international conflicts. Conflict is the disagreement between two sides. An example of a national conflict in Iraq is the conflict between Kurds and Arabs in Iraq over Kirkuk. Kirkuk is a city, that was a part of Kurdish territories in the past, but when Saddam Hussein became the president, he tried to make Kirkuk an Arab city because of the significant amount of oil that exists there. Therefore, he transferred lots of Kurdish inhabitants from Kirkuk to other parts of Kurdistan and replaced them with Arabs, but after he was defeated in the war against the US and hanged in 2006, the Kurds have been trying to get back that part of their territory. Some of the Arabs there consider Kirkuk as their homeland now, and they do not want to return Kirkuk to its original Kurdish territory. Therefore, the conflict still continues between the Kurds and Arabs.
Kirkuk City