Different scholars have identified different kinds or types of conflict. There can be social conflicts, intercommunity conflicts, caste conflicts, group conflict, interpersonal conflict, intellectual conflict, economic conflicts, cultural conflicts, religious conflicts, racial or ethnic conflicts, ideological conflicts, hot and cold conflict, north and south conflict, regional conflicts, international or intra-national conflicts and so on. According to Dennis Sandole, a typology facilitates analysis and a typology of conflicts could facilitate resolving as well as analysing conflicts. Moreover, a study of different typologies of conflicts may provide interrelated insights into a given conflict situation. Such insights could enable an analyst and potential third-party intervener to see a conflict from various angles, thereby enhancing the likelihood of a more effective response. According to Quincy Wright, conflict can take place among different sorts of entities. He identifies four types of conflicts – physical conflict, political conflict, ideological conflicts and legal conflicts. He distinguishes physical conflict in which two or more entities try to occupy the same space at the same time from political conflict in which a group tries to impose its policy on others. He further distinguishes these two types of conflict from ideological conflicts in which systems of thought or of values struggle with each other, and from legal conflicts in which controversies over claims or demands are adjusted by mutually recognized procedures .He also identifies fifth category of conflict – war. For

him, war in the legal sense has been characterised by the union