a quick meditation (still in progress) on conflict resolution:
 In scriptures, the blood and the seed had to be brought to enter The Presence. The sacrifice, and the planting, the death and the resurrection. He was the first Seed-and unless a seed goes into the ground, it cannot grow. And we are the first fruits of That Seed. But the Seed is planted in Blood. The sacrifice precedes the planting. The fields are plowed first, then the planting, then the harvest. We suffer, so we can know the joy of plowing with angels and harvesting. That’s the pattern.
We die to ourselves first, in order to know the true tree of ourselves. We lose our lives to find them. We die to live. This pattern is throughout scriptures. So we shouldn’t be surprised by death of all kinds, of persecutions, or unjust criticisms; we must die, so that He may live in us. Spiritual death is the first step towards Life. 
Jesus, while on earth, had two responses to criticisms, depending on His audience. To His Own people (those who drew close), He corrected them towards the truth. To outsiders, He remained silent, or gestural. Interesting that He did not always remain silent, but spoke clearly and directly to people, like Nicodemus and many others who were desiring to be close to and understand Him. He had two responses to critique.
One was direct confrontation in Love, the other was silent contemplation to offer room for consideration-silent symbolic sayings to draw people near (parables of being). Both were loving.
Jesus, of course, is both The Blood and The Seed. But His Life is also a pattern of how to live. So His Life contains all the architecture of how to deal with daily and seasonal conflicts.  
The Lion and The Lamb are both present in Jesus example of conflict resolution. Nice study, to see how Jesus dealt with direct conflict. In both cases, He was turning the other cheek. But in one, He was talking while hit, in the other He was silent. What a model!