Organization and conflict

This paper concentrates on the problem of the parties to conflict. Every confiict in-volves at least two parties or conflicting or-ganizations. The party may be a biological individual, or it may be an aggregate or an organization of individuals. All individuals are organizations of subordinate parts: all organizations are in some sense individuals insofar as they have well-defined patterns of behavior and reaction. Generally, we may wish to reserve the term competition for the wide concept which includes interactions among unorganized aggregates (such as bio-logical populations) and to use the word conflict for the narrower concept in which