Conflict Developmental Basis (CDB)

DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.

Name

conflictDevelopmentalBasis

Datatype

Enumeration

Definition

Characterization(s) of a conflict by condition(s) explaining the development of antagonism between two or more adversaries.

Description

A conflict may be explained with reference to reasons that parties engage in antagonism and/or with reference to other conditions from which opposition develops. For example, a basis for the American involvement in the Vietnam War was the U.S. rationale of preventing communist domination in Southeast Asia. Conditions from which opposition may develop include human-caused conditions (such as the severe conditions of surrender placed on Germany following the First World War, creating economic conditions that fostered the rise of fascism) and naturally caused conditions (such as a climate crisis that causes a food shortage, resulting in conflicts over food resources).

Accepted

2016-06-08

Defined by

NFDD 6.1

Values

CDB_1 Genocidal Conflict
CDB_2 Labour Conflict
CDB_3 Political Conflict
CDB_4 Resource Conflict
CDB_5 Social Conflict
CDB_6 Ethnic Conflcit
CDB_7 Religious Conflict
CDB_8 Economic Conflict
CDB_9 Territorial Conflict

Used by

ZI115 Event