What proportion of conflicts within small groups do you feel can actually be resolved rather than merely managed? Provide a rationale and example$($s$)$ for your answer.

Think about a conflict that you recently observed or took part in$.$ What elements of its timing, location, or physical surroundings do you think contributed to its nature or severity? Which of those elements, if any, do you think someone might have been able to change to lessen the intensity of the conflict?

Labor negotiations sometimes include a mandated "cooling$-$off period." Describe a conflict situation you've witnessed which you believe might have turned out better had such a cooling$-$off period been incorporated into it$.$ Describe areas of conflict in your life, at school or elsewhere, in which you feel it would be helpful to make use of such a technique?