By comparing our current state of the world. The only way for us to progress realistically is not Conflict but 'Threat'. Conflict may only be just expansion to progress but fear can change a person to improving both the company and his own well-being.
Conflict can only suck up the blood of the common people but having a threat can lead to progress.
The main example would be the two Major Gaming Companies such as 'EA' and 'Activision'.
When you see the comparison, you can tell that they both have conflict with one another(EA's Battlefield and Activision's Call of Duty) but not once did it gave interest of improvement but began to shift into which company can suck more money into their wallets.
They make up progress here and there but did it really improve the overall game genre at all? No.
From my understanding of how a company works, they see the gamers as 'Wallets' and their view only satisfy their own vision without improving the entire gaming ecology at all.
So, in conclusion, conflict is just violence through oppression and not progress. Threat induces progress for humanity in whole.
Our ancestors were once in conflict with animals because we view them as threat in the past, now, we cattle them because we can see that it is more efficient than just hunting. We invent different things because we see that there is a hidden threat that someone would stole our ideas. Now, we just see that our lives became peaceful that threat became insignificant and only saw conflict as a means of progress.
Thats it for my Ted Talk and just so all you know, I wasted my 1 digit braincell just to think of this idea.