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Conflict Opposition Type (COT)

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

RDF: cot.ttl

Name

conflictOppositionType

Datatype

Enumeration

Definition

The type of conflict with respect to the severity of antagonism and nature of the antagonists involved.

Description

A social conflict may range in severity from a "contest of wills" to one involving physical violence. Examples of antagonists: opposing nations (for example, in war), opposing economic actors (for example: unions, companies, and individual workers), and ethnic groups (for example: Hutus committing genocide against Tutsis in the Rwandan genocide of 1994).

Accepted

2016-06-08

Defined by

NFDD 6.1

Values

• COT_1 Civil War
• COT_2 Disruptive Crisis
• COT_3 Genocide
• COT_4 Social Confrontation
• COT_5 War

Used by

• ZI115 Event

Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.