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This paper discusses the challenges and strategies of conflict management in secondary schools. The school is an institution that brings together diverse identities. The school as a social system is filled with diverse personalities, rules, and values and is full of conflicts, problems, and differences between the different individuals that make up the school (students, teachers, staff, and parents). It is therefore essential for proper management of conflicts that may arise so that harmony and respect will be present in the school. Ending school conflict is impossible, since they are intrinsic to the human being, being an integral part of their development and the interpersonal relationships, they experience daily. Learning to live with school conflict requires creating attitudes of openness, interest in differences, and respect for diversity, teaching how to recognize injustice, taking measures to overcome it, resolving differences constructively, and moving from conflict situations to reconciliations. So, it is essential that the initial and continuous training of teachers encompasses conflict management, providing them with tools so that they can resolve the conflicts they experience in the class and school in general.