Conflict may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Conflict'' (1921 film), an American silent film directed by Stuart Paton * ''Conflict'' (1936 film), an American boxing film starring John Wayne * ''Conflict'' (1937 film), a Swedish drama film directed by Per-Axel Branner * ''Conflict'' (1938 film), a French drama film directed by Léonide Moguy * ''Conflict'' (1945 film), an American suspense film starring Humphrey Bogart * ''Catholics: A Fable'' (1973 film), or ''The Conflict'', a film starring Martin Sheen * ''Judith'' (1966 film) or ''Conflict'', a film starring Sophia Loren * ''Samar'' (1999 film) or ''Conflict'', a 1999 Indian film by Shyam Benegal

Games

* ''Conflict'' (series), a 2002–2008 series of war games for the PS2, Xbox, and PC * ''Conflict'' (video game), a 1989 Nintendo Entertainment System war game * '' Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator'', a 1990 strategy computer game

Literature and periodicals

* ''Conflict'' (novel), a 1934 novel by E.V. Timms *''Conflict'', an underground art fanzine by Gerard Cosloy * ''Conflict'', an adventure pulp magazine from 1933 to 1934 that published a story by Margie Harris * ''Conflict'', a wargame magazine that included board wargames

Music

Conflict (band) Conflict is an English anarcho-punk band originally based in Eltham in South London. Formed in 1981, the band's original line up consisted of: Colin Jerwood (vocals), Francisco 'Paco' Carreno (drums), John (bass guitar), Steve (guitars), Pauli ...

, an anarcho-punk band * ''Conflict'' (Sy Smith album), a 2008 R&B album * ''Conflict'' (Jimmy Woods album), a 1963 jazz album * "Conflict", a song by Disturbed from the 2000 album '' The Sickness''

Television

* ''Conflict'' (1978 TV series), a TVB television series * ''Conflict'' (American TV series), a 1956 American television series * "Conflict" (''UFO''), the fourth episode aired of the first series of ''UFO''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Conflict (narrative) Traditionally, conflict is a major literary element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the goal will be achieved. In works of narrative, conflict is the challenge main charact ...

, a core literary element

Military

* Violence * Armed conflict, often known as war * HMS ''Conflict'', a list of ships with the name ** HMS ''Conflict'' (1873), a schooner launched in 1873 and sold in 1882 ** HMS ''Conflict'' (1894), a ''Conflict''-class destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1920

Social science

Conflict (process) A conflict is a struggle and a clash of interest, opinion, or even principles. Conflict will always be found in society; as the basis of conflict may vary to be personal, racial, class, caste, political and international. Conflict may also be emot ...

, the general pattern of groups dealing with disparate ideas *

Conflict continuum A conflict continuum is a model or concept various social science researchers use when modeling conflict on a continuum from low to high-intensity, such as from aggression to irritation to explosiveness. The mathematical model of game theory or ...

from cooperation (low intensity), to contest, to higher intensity (violence and war) *

Conflict of interest A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. Typically, this relates to situations i ...

, involvement in multiple interests which could possibly corrupt the motivation or decision-making * Cultural conflict, a type of conflict that occurs when different cultural values and beliefs clash *

Ethnic conflict An ethnic conflict is a conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups. While the source of the conflict may be political, social, economic or religious, the individuals in conflict must expressly fight for their ethnic group's positi ...

, a conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups *

Group conflict Group conflict, or hostilities between different groups, is a feature common to all forms of human social organization (e.g., sports teams, ethnic groups, nations, religions, gangs), and also occurs in social animals. Although group conflict is on ...

, conflict between groups * Intragroup conflict, conflict within groups * Organizational conflict, discord caused by opposition of needs, values, and interests between people working together * Role conflict, incompatible demands placed upon a person such that compliance with both would be difficult * Social conflict, the struggle for agency or power in something * Work–family conflict, incompatible demands between the work and family roles of an individual

Other uses

* Conflict (air traffic control), a loss of separation between two aircraft * Conflict (revision control), a computer problem wherein multiple editors attempt to edit the same document