Conflict management is more difficult to achieve due to the multiple parties involved, different perspectives, cultures and beliefs, and the end goals desired by each parts. Another important aspect of conflict management is how to find possible solutions to prevent conflicts from escalating. Welch, implements three elements to distinguish when doing so. He uses the metaphor of building a bomb to explain the three levels of causes. One is the root cause, namely the development of plans to build the bomb. The second, or intermediate cause, would be the act of building the bomb itself, and the third, is the proximate cause, the triggering of the bomb. It also assumes that the goal of conflict management is to prevent the bomb from being built in the first place, but if it is built, to prevent it from being detonated. I like his allegory because he makes it quite simplistic and easily digestible