Fundamental theories of Conflictology: the need for practical application in the assessment of international and domestic conflicts

The globalization processes of the modern world are not at all characterized by certainty and security, because competition between states based on market principles and the struggle for world leadership in socio-economic indicators lead to international and domestic political problems. The situation is also aggravated by the fact that the previously used political techniques of imposing the image of an internal or external enemy or ethnocentrism, when some certain groups were given a negative image, and others exclusively positive, almost ceased to bring the desired results. Because, in the era of information technology that creates opportunities for multilateral information acquisition, it is almost impossible to achieve absolute manipulation of public consciousness. This was largely facilitated by the creation of classical theories by Western scientists that reveal the specifics of the behavior of the initiators (instigators) of a conflict situation and the motivations for consolidating people in accordance with a certain ideology. At the same time, practice shows that classical theories today do not bring the necessary results, and the development and proposals of new concepts that contribute to the prediction, prevention or elimination of conflicts are almost impossible today. The problem also lies in the fact that existing theories can only give a general picture of the conflict, but not control or accurately predict the outcome of the situation, which makes it difficult to ensure security and stability of modern globalization processes. In this regard, the disclosure of the specifics of classical theories and their reinterpretation in the XXI century are of fundamental importance for all societies and, above all, for the post-Soviet space, because the conflicts that have arisen here have bot

conflict, the social nature of conflict, Deutsch, Darendorf, Kouser, Bowling, Simmel, Sumner, stereotypes, psychology of conflict