When people are in disagreement, large or small, the first person who goes missing is God. Which makes ending the conflict and healing the rift very difficult indeed. We live in a world of conflict. That has been the case from the time of Adam and Eve, when their sons got into a conflict and Cain ended up murdering Abel. Since that time, we the people of God's good creation have argued and fought and maimed and killed, one on one and masses upon masses, in a seemingly endless manner.
Conflict is, without a doubt, an inherent part of our makeup.
It is not, however, how we are called to live. Despite evidence to the contrary, we are called to live in peace and harmony, for that is how God created us. However, to paraphrase the apostle Paul, we frequently do not do the good we want, but instead do the evil we do not want. Look at the conflicts that confront us each day. Right now, two giants of the information superhighway, Microsoft and America Online, are battling each other over instant messaging, with Microsoft raiding the system of AOL just to get what it wants, to wit, ready access to the largest instant messaging system in the world.