Can conflict be positive?

Question

Can conflict be positive?

Answer 1

Depends on the level of conflict.  Wars are rarely positive but interpersonal conflict can result in personal growth.

Answer 2

yes, in competition it encourages both parties to accomplish more than they would have by their own devices

in marriage it brings the two closer together to have a dynamic and open relationship

Answer 3

If someone gets in my way and I knock them over, that's a positive result for me.

Answer 4

There is a positive in mostly all situations. If there were no conflicts, there would be no change.  Can you imagine what life would be like if there where a certain set of rules that everyone simply performed and didn't protest?

In having a conflict, people can see more than one view of a situation (if they are openminded, mind you).

Conflict can bring positive change, if dealt with in a healthy manner.

Answer 5

Do Americans see the Revolutionary war as a positive thing?

Of course Britains may disagree?

Did Martin Luther King Jr. do something positive through the creation of conflict. He called it passive resistance - but even in its passivity it created conflict for businesses, and cities, and for the people who were asked to find other means of transportation.

Ghandi is another fine example of using conflict for the betterment of society.

The question is can having no conflict be good?

Conflict leads us to the next step - I am hungry (a conflict) therefore I will eat. What I want isn't necessarily in the cupboard (a conflict). So I must shop, but I have no money (a conflict) so I must work, be inventive to make money so I can resolve these conflicts that I have.

Yes conflict can be very positive

Answer 6

I think that conflict can be positive but only if it's constructive conflict that leads to beneficial outcomes.  For example, when working in groups, if there is a conflict, which there will surely be, if it is confronted and dealt with successfully, the group will benefit overall.  If it is ignored and negative feelings fester it will hurt the group and it's productivity.

Answer 7

A conflict to me, means the ego becomes involved and thus makes it very difficult to have a positive outcome.

Answer 8

The only way conflict can be posative, is if both parties learn from the conflict and use what they have learned in a posative way