The conflict category develops an interest against the Others, against ”them”

The participants in the category have unmet needs. But a need, material or not, becomes an interest only when there is a real or a constructed scarcity, because ”they” have monopolised a resource or manipulated the societal structures in some other way to ”our” disadvantage.

Needs are individual, but the interest is collective, because the scarcity has been collectively organised, and because the participants haven’t enough individual resources to meet the interest.