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Conflict is Part of our lives!
Conflict is part of our lives because
as human beings we have widely divergent personalities, backgrounds
and talents.
The following diagram illustrates that
without wise and effective action or intervention, conflict
tends to escalate from healthy to unhealthy conflict. And
without wise intervention, it tends to move up through all
five levels. These stages are drawn from Speed B. Leas’
helpful analysis in Moving Your Church Through Conflict,
loose-leaf manual, 1985, The Alban Institute www.alban.org.
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Some conflicts
can be healthy when properly dealt with:
Problems needing solutions and widely handled disagreements
can tune our relationships and organizational goals.
But conflict becomes unhealthy when
it's handled improperly:
It can easily escalate into hurtful disagreements and then
into contests, fight or flight and even intractable or recycling
disputes. Such unhealthy conflict can wound people, break
relationships, fragment families, ruin businesses and split
churches!
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