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title: "Conflict engagement"
description: "Protocols for treating conflict as information and energy rather than failure"
url: "/conflict-engagement/"
tags: [area, conflict]
readingPathPosition: 30
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# Conflict engagement

The conflict engagement area governs how Fabric holds conflict – not as failure to be resolved but as [energy and information about system dynamics](/tension-drives-development.md). It is one of the more developed protocol areas with three specific protocols:

- [Conflict-as-information](/conflict-as-information.md)
- [Staged support](/staged-support.md)
- [Boundary-tending](/boundary-tending.md)

Together these protocols create a conflict ecology: from the initial [naming of tension](/naming-experiences-is-how-protocols-learn.md), through escalating support structures, to the most consequential boundary decisions – with each stage attending to root causes and structural conditions, not only interpersonal dynamics.

As conflict can be understood unprocessed feedback, the conflict engagement area is closely connected to [Feedback and learning](/feedback-and-learning.md).

## In this vault

- Previous: [Weaving between circles](/weaving-between-circles.md)
- Next: [Conflict-as-information](/conflict-as-information.md)
- Referenced by: [Boundary-tending](/boundary-tending.md), [Conflict-as-information](/conflict-as-information.md), [Feedback and learning](/feedback-and-learning.md), [Living systems become protocol areas](/living-systems-become-protocol-areas.md), [Protocols](/protocols.md), [Staged support](/staged-support.md), [Tension drives development](/tension-drives-development.md)