Conflict parties vary in how strongly their members feel hatred toward their adversary, and how many of them have such feelings.
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Another important aspect of severity is the negative emotions held by each side toward the other.
In many recent violent conflicts, more noncombatants than combatants have been killed.
Such injuries result from military fighting, riots, and revolutionary struggles.
Sometimes the harm done to noncombatants is intentional, meant to dry up support for the combatants, to drive people of the other side away, or to commit genocide.
Severity of injury also includes harm done to those not engaged in the conflict, such as the civilians in a city suffering collateral damage and those who flee to avoid being killed.
