“Generative conflict holds repair and growth as its goals and ideals; is between people who are collaborating toward greater understanding and equity, and who listen to and hear each other; and is solution-oriented. This is in comparison to counter-productive conflict, which has being right or proving the other wrong as its goals and ideals; loses sight of collaboration; causes participants, particularly those with marginalised identities, to feel unheard or unseen; and is not solution-oriented.” (Emergent Space)

The Wildfire Project says that generative conflict is when we “engage conflict in ways that generate more possibilities, greater connection, and fuller expression, instead of shutting those things down. This includes both moving past conflict avoidance and unhealthy attachment to conflict.”

Resources: We Name It So We Can Repair It: Rethinking Harm and Accountability in the Anti-Trafficking Sector, Emergent Space: Finding an Alternative