I think Dan wouldn´t be the boss if he didn´t know how to deal with that ;-) I furthermore don´t believe that the whales who flagged did it without any reason, independently if they were right or wrong. But we cannot be their judges here without having any background information.
War is a big word. Flags can be used to express simple disagreement (on rewards). I don´t really understand the hype. We have agreed on a world where power is distributed amoung ALL of its participants. As in any other world, power can be abused. That´s a simple rule of life.
EDIT: But we don´t even know what the conflict is about. I wouldn´t want somebody to solve 'my' conflicts without my explicit agreement. EDIT END
If you planned to install mediators (independend authorities), you´d deny the idea of self-governance which is the basis of our ideology.