Not a "weird" take. Conflict resolution is never simple even when you involve people who know what they are doing. It takes training and a whole lot of discipli

Not a "weird" take. Conflict resolution is never simple even when you involve people who know what they are doing. It takes training and a whole lot of discipline to produce good outcomes. Throw people who are untrained into the situation and invite our polarizing media to the event and bad outcomes are more or less guaranteed. Christakis isn't a trained psychologist. I am a fan of his work on network effects and he didn't cause unnecessary further escalation, but he still wasn't the right guy to send into that quad. Send in a Marshall Rosenberg and the outcome would have been different.