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Conflict & Crisis

Category ID: conflict Icon: shield-alert Color: #DC2626 This category contains 5 event types and 25 subtypes for tracking conflict & crisis events.

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Special Fields

This category includes the following specialized metadata fields:
FieldTypeRequiredOptions
disorder_typestringYesPolitical violence, Demonstrations, Strategic developments
fatalitiesintegerNo
injuriesintegerNo
abductionsintegerNo
civilian_targetingbooleanNo

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Disorder Type

Field ID: disorder_type
Type: string
Required: Yes Allowed values:
  • Political violence
  • Demonstrations
  • Strategic developments

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Fatalities

Field ID: fatalities
Type: integer
Required: No

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Injuries

Field ID: injuries
Type: integer
Required: No

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Abductions

Field ID: abductions
Type: integer
Required: No

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Civilian Targeting

Field ID: civilian_targeting
Type: boolean
Required: No

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Event Type Hierarchy

The Conflict & Crisis category includes the following complete hierarchy:

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Battles

Type ID: battles
Subtypes: 3
  • Government Regains Territory (government_regains_territory)
  • Non State Actor Overtakes Territory (non_state_actor_overtakes_territory)
  • Armed Clash (armed_clash)

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Civil Unrest

Type ID: civil_unrest
Subtypes: 5
  • Peaceful Protest (peaceful_protest)
  • Excessive Force Against Protesters (excessive_force_against_protesters)
  • Protest With Intervention (protest_with_intervention)
  • Violent Demonstration (violent_demonstration)
  • Mob Violence (mob_violence)

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Explosions Remote Violence

Type ID: explosions_remote_violence
Subtypes: 6
  • Air Drone Strike (air_drone_strike)
  • Suicide Bomb (suicide_bomb)
  • Shelling Artillery Missile Attack (shelling_artillery_missile_attack)
  • Remote Explosive Landmine Ied (remote_explosive_landmine_ied)
  • Grenade (grenade)
  • Chemical Weapon (chemical_weapon)

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Violence Against Civilians

Type ID: violence_against_civilians
Subtypes: 3
  • Sexual Violence (sexual_violence)
  • Attack (attack)
  • Abduction Forced Disappearance (abduction_forced_disappearance)

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Strategic Developments

Type ID: strategic_developments
Subtypes: 8
  • Agreement (agreement)
  • Arrests (arrests)
  • Change To Group Activity (change_to_group_activity)
  • Disrupted Weapons Use (disrupted_weapons_use)
  • Headquarters Or Base Established (headquarters_or_base_established)
  • Looting Property Destruction (looting_property_destruction)
  • Non Violent Transfer Of Territory (non_violent_transfer_of_territory)
  • Other (other)

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Example API Queries

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Get all Conflict & Crisis events

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.intrace.com/v1/corpus/events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "your-api-key"},
    params={"event_category": "conflict"}
)
events = response.json()

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Get Battles events

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.intrace.com/v1/corpus/events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "your-api-key"},
    params={
        "event_category": "conflict",
        "event_type": "battles"
    }
)

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Conceptual Guidance

When classifying conflict events:
  • Battles involve direct armed combat between organized groups
  • Civil Unrest covers protests and demonstrations, from peaceful to violent
  • Explosions & Remote Violence includes attacks where the perpetrator is not at the immediate location
  • Violence Against Civilians focuses on targeting of non-combatants
  • Strategic Developments captures non-violent but significant conflict-related changes
Key Distinction: “Government Regains Territory” vs “Armed Clash” - Use the former when there’s a clear territorial change, the latter for combat without territorial shift. ← Back to Taxonomy Overview