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The objectives of this research was to study the conceptual metaphors of conflicts in Thai newspaper between 2005 – 2014, based on Lakoff and Johnson’s concept (1980), gathering political conflicts in online clipping from 2,880 newspapers. The research found the 4,675 metaphors expressed conflicts, and language users had perspectives towards conflicts through 7 types of conceptual metaphors; namely political conflict is the fight political conflict is fire political conflict is role play political conflict is game/sport political conflict is animal behavior political conflict is illness and political conflict is belief. However, conflicts are abstracts which have multi-dimensional complex can be presented through a combination of multiple conceptions metaphors. Each conceptual metaphor found communicated the distinctive aspects of the conflicts; namely: a bipartisan conflict communicated through conceptual metaphors of political conflict is the fight political conflict is animal behavior political conflict is game/sport and political conflict is role play. Additionally, an impact or damage conflict communicated through conceptual metaphors of political conflict is fire political conflict is illness and political conflict is belief.