>>107945262Until we learned this was not conflict resolution at all.
It was merely pushing out the problem and making it possible to store.
They have been working for thousands of years just to contain the fallout of Rose's folly.
Steven learns that fighting "monsters" is just cleanup after the war. Which did not resolve the conflict over Earth either.
Because that was a conflict between the interests of White and Pink, who never reconciled and whose differences escalated to a millennium of war and 5 millennia of mourning.
That only becomes finally solved when Steven has the Diamonds reconcile and help to heal the Gems that were corrupted.
As I said, it's about how violence does not truly solve a conflict. It merely declares a winner. And often enough destroys the opposition.
But that is not conflict resolution in any meaningful sense.
At least for the family-level interpersonal conflict SU portrays.
