Many beings in many places in the world are experiencing splits and bifurcations. It’s easy to understand these experiences as conflict; that’s the surface view. In a sense, conflict is part of nature’s nature as well as human nature. Humans are part of this game of dominance, prey, and the food chain to some elemental degree as beings who eat, at least for now. Even if all you eat are plants, those are living beings subject to your will and whim.