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

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* ''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 Gerard Cosloy (born 1964) is an American music industry executive. Biography Cosloy was raised in Wayland, Massachusetts, a western suburb of Boston. While he was in high school, he became involved in the local hardcore punk scene, put together m ...

* ''Conflict'', an adventure pulp magazine from 1933 to 1934 that published a story by

Margie Harris Margie Harris (birth and death dates unknown) was a pulp writer from 1930 to 1939. She was one of the most popular authors in the short-lived gang pulp genre. Even in an era of hardboiled crime fiction, her stories were unusually hard-edged and bitt ...

* ''Conflict'', a wargame magazine that included

board wargames A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures games. The modern, commercial wargaming hobby (as distinct from military exercises, o ...

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 ''The Sickness'' is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed. It was released on March 7, 2000, by Giant and Reprise Records. The album peaked at number 29 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, and spent a total of 106 weeks on the ...

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 Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or Power (social and p ...

* Armed conflict, often known as

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

* 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 Cultural conflict is a type of conflict that occurs when different cultural values and beliefs clash. Broad and narrow definitions exist for the concept, both of which have been used to explain violence (including war) and crime, on either a micr ...

, 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 In sociology, intragroup conflict (or infighting) refers to conflict between two or more members of the same group or team. In recent years, intragroup conflict has received a large amount of attention in conflict and group dynamics literature. T ...

, conflict within groups *

Organizational conflict Organizational conflict, or workplace conflict, is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests between people working together. Conflict takes many forms in organizations. There is the inevita ...

, discord caused by opposition of needs, values, and interests between people working together *

Role conflict Role conflict occurs when there are incompatible demands placed upon a person relating to their job or position. People experience role conflict when they find themselves pulled in various directions as they try to respond to the many statuses th ...

, incompatible demands placed upon a person such that compliance with both would be difficult *

Social conflict Social conflict is the Conflict (process), struggle for Agency (sociology), agency or Power (sociology), power in society. Social conflict occurs when two or more people oppose each other in social interaction, and each exerts social power with re ...

, the struggle for agency or power in something *

Work–family conflict Work–family conflict occurs when an individual experiences incompatible demands between work and family roles, causing participation in both roles to become more difficult. This imbalance creates conflict at the work-life interface. It is impor ...

, incompatible demands between the work and family roles of an individual

Other uses

Conflict (air traffic control) In air traffic control, separation is the name for the concept of keeping an aircraft outside a minimum distance from another aircraft to reduce the risk of those aircraft colliding, as well as prevent accidents due to secondary factors, such as ...

, a loss of separation between two aircraft *

Conflict (revision control) An edit conflict is a computer problem that may occur when multiple editors edit the same file and cannot merge without losing part of their edits. Description The conflict occurs when an editor gets a copy of a shared document file, changes t ...

, a computer problem wherein multiple editors attempt to edit the same document