Previously told that conflict will come to a disastrous end (6)
I believe the answer is:
warned
'previously told' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'conflict will come to a disastrous end' is the wordplay.
'conflict will' becomes 'war' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'come to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a disastrous' indicates an anagram.
'end' with letters rearranged gives 'ned'.
'war'+'ned'='WARNED'
'that' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for warned that I've seen before include "Notified in advance" , "Cautioned about Andrew" , "Put on the alert" , "Notified of potential danger" .)