Sociocultural integration and resolving identity-based conflicts: regional perspective

Abstract

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.