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The Unconventional Conflict Ontology has been constructed using a set of real-world conflicts to provide a model of a generic unconventional conflict. Parts of this model/ontology are completely situation-independent. That is, they are “true” for any particular conflict. The word “true” is placed in quotations to emphasize that its meaning may differ from some uses. For example, the ontology contains an element for a non-combatant evacuation (NEO); however, this does not imply that all unconventional conflicts involve NEOs. It implies that if such a conflict involves a NEO, then that NEO will be related to other elements in the situation in the same manner that they are related in the ontology. This chapter provides an overview of the components of the ontology and their relationships.
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Hartley, D.S. (2018). Overview of the Unconventional Conflict Ontology. In: An Ontology for Unconventional Conflict. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75337-9_2
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