According to a new book – Conflict Resilience – there are tools we can learn to help us sit with conflict and grow from it. This article from Greater Good interviews the authors to find out more!

While we often talk about “resolving” disagreements—whether at home or in international politics—the two coauthors think that embracing conflict has more to do with accepting differences as opposed to erasing those differences. That is, learning to sit with the discomfort of disagreement is a vital skill we should all develop, and understanding how to build resilience in the face of conflict is a much more realistic goal than agreement or resolution.