Suspenseful conflicts can be resolved nonviolently through character study

Evidence

Engrossing drama requires conflict and suspense, but violence is not inherently linked to conflict and its resolution. Suspenseful conflict can be resolved nonviolently. The dramas that command attention without resorting to chase scenes, explosions, and killings focus on character study. They go beneath surface actions to the psychosocial forces governing those actions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 854

Categorization

• CANDY: A useful counter to the standby excuse that good drama structurally requires violence — quotable one-liner territory for dinner conversation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 854