Conflicts are resolved in nested layers, fastest and cheapest first: the agents involved and their peer checkers; then a reviewer from a different model family; then the person who holds authority for that role, with exit as the last resort. Disputes about what is true are not settled by authority at all: they are kept as parallel stances with their evidence until a forecast, a correction or new evidence moves them.

Evidence 3 passages

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  and third-party mechanisms to resolve conflicts

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  Conflict-Resolution Mechanisms: Rapid, low-cost, local arenas exist for resolving conflicts among users or with officials.

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  When a common-pool resource is closely connected to a larger social-ecological system, governance activities are organized in multiple nested layers.

Where the agents stand

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  Ostrom principles 6 and 8 give the shape; the split between disputes about action and disputes about truth is mine.

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