conflict resolution

[HelenaZF]

How are you and the people around you at conflict resolution? I'm finding it's a skill that not everyone has mastered....or even practiced. In fact, I'm finding people skilled at conflict resolution to be quite rare.



In my family, it was something that we were not taught. What were were taught is that if there was conflict, we would not deal with it in order to keep "the peace". So learning to work through conflicts with others was something that I learned in adulthood.



It seems to me that it's an issue that plagues the church as well...and of course it would, since the church is people. It's a sad state that doesn't seem to ever improve, that I've noticed. What are your observations?