Conflict & Crisis Taxonomy

Complete event type and subtype reference for Conflict & Crisis

Conflict & Crisis

Category ID: conflict Icon: shield-alert Color: #DC2626

This category contains 5 event types and 25 subtypes for tracking conflict & crisis events.

Special Fields

This category includes the following specialized metadata fields:

Field	Type	Required	Options
disorder_type	string	Yes	Political violence, Demonstrations, Strategic developments
fatalities	integer	No
injuries	integer	No
abductions	integer	No
civilian_targeting	boolean	No

Disorder Type

Field ID: disorder_type
Type: string
Required: Yes

Allowed values:

• Political violence
• Demonstrations
• Strategic developments

Fatalities

Field ID: fatalities
Type: integer
Required: No

Injuries

Field ID: injuries
Type: integer
Required: No

Abductions

Field ID: abductions
Type: integer
Required: No

Civilian Targeting

Field ID: civilian_targeting
Type: boolean
Required: No

Event Type Hierarchy

The Conflict & Crisis category includes the following complete hierarchy:

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)

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)

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)

Violence Against Civilians

Type ID: violence_against_civilians
Subtypes: 3

• Sexual Violence (sexual_violence)
• Attack (attack)
• Abduction Forced Disappearance (abduction_forced_disappearance)

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)

Example API Queries

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()

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"
    }
)

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.

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