ABSTRACT
Conflict generation is the process of simplifying an issue, raising it to visibility and forcing public polarization so that 50 percent plus one landed on the author's side. It is essentially the opposite of consensus-building processes although it uses all the same skills. The end products of the analytical and transformative processes people developed were often understandings rather than agreements. Parties that were deeply divided came together, joined in an analytical process, and went away not having agreed about anything but having come to understand their own and the other's situation better. Dealing with imbalances in money, expertise, and time is a problem to be solved just like any other, and once people look at the options, many of them prefer having the author act as a balancer as compared to some of the other possibilities. In order to do this project, people had to do a lot of interviews very fast.
