High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Conflict resolution is any reduction in the severity of a conflict. It may involve conflict management, in which the parties continue the conflict but adopt less extreme tactics; settlement, in which they reach agreement on enough issues that the conflict stops; or removal of the underlying causes of the conflict. The latter is sometimes called resolution, in a narrower sense of the term that will not be used in this article. Settlements sometimes end a conflict for good, but when there are deeper issues such as value clashes among people who must work together, distressed relationships, or mistreated members of one s ethnic group across a border settlements are often temporary.