Defining or describing peace does not make it much easier to perform. But it does give some sense of the direction in which one needs to go to arrive at peace. As writers, we know a great deal about creating conflict, escalating it, and about dramatizing it. I asked a group of writers for their feedback about resolving conflict. As writers we are typically dancing with a fire that often seems to be missing when conflict and solutions arise in real life.
Conflict stretches people.
It asks them to think beyond their own wants and needs and their limited vision of how the world is or should be. Conflict asks people to take into account the peculiar needs of others. Conflict asks people to think outside the lines. Conflict asks people to invent solutions that didn't exist yesterday. Conflict invites people to be different tomorrow than they were yesterday.