Cascon Conflict Types

CASCON classifies cases into four conflict types, describing the general character of the conflict and the relationship of the parties involved. The conflict type for a case is entered and displayed in the Case Detail window. The conflict types are:

Interstate -- conflict between two or more identifiable states.

Primarily internal -- civil war or insurgency mainly between domestic factions, whether ethnic, linguistic, religious, or so on.

External intervention -- internal conflict with significant external involvement, that is, civil war with outside participation as a major element.

Colonial -- colony versus administering power, entailing a struggle for political independence by indigenous forces against the foreign administering or otherwise ruling power.