The conflict engagement area governs how Fabric holds conflict – not as failure to be resolved but as energy and information about system dynamics. It is one of the more developed protocol areas with three specific protocols:
Together these protocols create a conflict ecology: from the initial naming of tension, 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.