Sociocultural integration and resolving identity-based conflicts: regional perspective
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https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu12.2016.307Abstract
This paper is devoted to researching the main theoretical approaches to analyze sociocultural integration as a tool for resolving regional identity-based conflicts. Author focuses on the ability of sociocultural integration to transformation of destructive identity-based conflicts. The author considers the factors of the identity-based conflicts and emphasizes destabilizing role of the politicization of ethnicity. Among the structural conditions of the escalation of regional conflicts, the author calls: social inequalities, economic polarization, contradiction between the system modernization and social disintegration. Refs 23.
Keywords:
sociocultural integration, regional conflicts, identity-based conflicts, conflict resolution, the North Caucasus
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