Conflict Management in Air Force ROTC

This semester I hold the position of Finance Officer in the university's Air Force detachment.  Thankfully, this position is in the upper echelons of the detachment, so the cadets I usually deal with are pretty level-headed, but that does not mean we don't have our conflicts every now and then.  When someone is trying to get $1000 to organize an event, usually it is not as feasible as they think, so we would have to sit down and discuss it.  It is almost the perfect example for Rummel's 5 stages of conflict.  Everyone knows they have to contact me, and get my approval before they can do anything with money.  When they finally approach me, and ask for a lot more money than we have, that sparks the conflict.  This ends up in us two having a discussion on what we can afford to purchase, and what we can not afford to spend money on, and find other ways to make up for that cost.  After that we both cope with the solution, and we will finally either.  That is one type of conflict within my chain of command in the detachment.  Another area of conflict is when I have to personally pass information to the active duty officers, because that is a whole different dynamic.  There, it is more of a one way street, since I receive all the information and then it is up to me to decide what to do with it and execute the mission.