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It kind of depends exactly what you mean by conflict. For instance NASA/the space program has generated a lot of advances and that comes from exploration. So if you mean can we progress without conflict amongst ourselves? Then hell yes.
Unless you mean any kind of conflict. Like it could be viewed as being in conflict with nature. And in that case, without any conflict whatsoever then I don't think we could progress much. It's just not our nature.
But really that is a somewhat moot point since we'll pretty much always be in conflict with the physical universe and our own death.
I don't think we need a police state to have global peace, we only need to "grow up" so to speak. 94% of the human race is basically infantile.
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