We all experience conflict in our lives, even the most knowledgeable and healthiest of people. It’s part of being a human being and has many benefits to our lives. The issue is not whether you will engage in conflict because you always will to some degree. It's more about how to engage with conflict in a healthy way.
As Dan Shapiro, the head of Harvard’s International Negotiation program and authour of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts, states: the problem is not that we have disagreements but how we disagree. He shares 3 approaches to improving the quality of your disagreements.