Priya Parker.Photo by Fernando Palafox. Arts & Culture Why a fight might be just what your group needs Priya Parker says sometimes reckoning with buried tensions can help reconnect group to values, identity — and one another September 29, 2026 long read Excerpted from “The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict” by Priya Parker, M.P.P. ’12, published on Sept. 8 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Parker is a specialist in conflict resolution who works with organizations, communities, and leaders. When people in conflict first call me, they tend to say some version of: “Make this go away.” I get it. Conflict is not...