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title: "Conflict-as-information"
description: "Conflict is treated as energy and information about system dynamics, not as failure"
url: "/conflict-as-information/"
tags: [protocol, conflict]
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# Conflict-as-information

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

**Accord.** The network treats conflict not as failure but as energy and information about system dynamics. Any member can name a conflict without it being treated as a problem to be solved or a person to be blamed.

**Ritual.** When conflict is named, the first response is to notice it somatically – where does it live in the body? What does the collective tension reveal about what's at stake? This slows the rush to resolution and honours the information conflict carries.

**Critique & Contemplation.** Root-cause inquiry, adapted from transformative justice: when conflict arises, the question is not only "what happened?" but "what conditions made this possible?" The inquiry attends to power differentials, historical patterns, and structural factors.

## Sources

- Root-cause inquiry and conditions-based analysis adapted from Mingus (2019), "Transformative Justice: A Brief Description"

## In this vault

- Previous: [Conflict engagement](/conflict-engagement.md)
- Next: [Staged support](/staged-support.md)
- Referenced by: [Conflict engagement](/conflict-engagement.md), [Protocols](/protocols.md), [Tension drives development](/tension-drives-development.md)