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title: "Boundary-tending"
description: "The network's capacity to determine that behaviour is incompatible with continued participation"
url: "/boundary-tending/"
tags: [protocol, conflict]
readingPathPosition: 33
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# Boundary-tending

Part of the [Conflict engagement](/conflict-engagement.md) area.

**Accord.** The network can, through a defined and transparent process, determine that a member's behaviour is incompatible with continued participation. The process involves multiple rounds of engagement before reaching this point.

**Ritual.** The process is held by people trained in both accountability and care – not as a judicial proceeding but as a relational reckoning.

**Critique & Contemplation.** After any boundary decision, the group examines what the conflict revealed about the network's structures, not only about the individual involved.

## In this vault

- Previous: [Staged support](/staged-support.md)
- Next: [Resource distribution](/resource-distribution.md)
- Referenced by: [Conflict engagement](/conflict-engagement.md), [Protocols](/protocols.md)