Exploiting rifts over identity and conflicts over tactics is fundamental to counter-insurgency. Addressing them responsibly is essential to resisting counter-insurgency. Counter-insurgency contractors will tell you this themselves.
See, for example:
https://theintercept.com/document/2017/06/03/internal-tigerswan-situation-report-2016-10-03/
This point bears repeating from one movement to the next.
For background on the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline:
https://cwc.im/standingrockinterview
And regarding some of the conflicts that came up in the course of that movement:
https://cwc.im/texts/battle
