How levels of conflicts are there?

Answer 1

Typically 5 or 3, but it completely depends on whose chart you are looking at.

One popular chart has levels 0-5 (so, six levels) in the way we approach problems:

0 -- Conflict Avoidance

1 -- A Problem to Solve

2 -- Disagreement

3 -- Contest

4 -- Fight or Flight

5 -- Intractable Situation

Another is five levels of conflict in a different way, mainly the way we feel and how conflict can escalate:

1 -- Discomfort

2 -- Incident

3 -- Misunderstanding

4 -- Tension

5 -- Crisis

Another way more generic way to look at conflict involves three "levels":

--Intrapersonal conflict

--Interpersonal conflict

--Intragroup conflict

Or, there is this one:

1 -- Battle

2 -- Campaign

3 -- War

For writers in talking about different plot conflicts:

--Inner conflict

--Local Conflict

--Global Conflict

Some people differentiate between

--Content Conflict (disagreeing about an issue)

--Relational Conflict (disagreeing about a person)

Or

--Relationship Conflict

--Task Conflict

--Process Conflict

And to wrap it up, I'll throw in the five things that propel groups into conflict:

--Superiority

--Injustice

--Vulnerability

--Distrust

--Helplessness