Conflict Engagement

As working and learning environments become increasingly polarized, achieving constructive dialogue can feel like an impossible task. The accountability framework (inspired by Elise Ahenkorah's accountable space approach) helps to address this challenge through clear and transparent expectations and transformative practices for identifying and addressing harm. 

 

In accountable spaces, we don't offer unfeasible guarantees of safety from discomfort or expectations of bravery that can place unfair burden on marginalized people. When we centre accountability we put the onus on all participants to be conscious of our actions, impact and responses to others. 

 

Through this approach, we can create the necessary conditions to transform unproductive conflict into effective dialogic learning.