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If democracy naturally occured, i.e. if it was humanity's default social structure, there may well be no conflict.
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I think the point is that you can't actually have a democracy without some form of conflict. It doesn't have to be armed, violent struggle, or people martyring themselves; but a society in which people are free to voice their opinions and seek the enfranchisement of their choice of rules and regulations is, by definition, one in which some people will be disappointed, some of the time.
And if some people want something, and some people don't, that's a conflict.
You can't have a democracy in which everyone gets to do what they want, and even the most harmonious society must contain some element of conflict however genteel.
Kev