Authors : Evgeny V. Suslov, Valery B. Golubev, Sergey A. Zhuravlev, Elena P. Kartashova, Anna Rotar, Andrey Bolshakov and GennadiSalmijanov
Abstract: The need for writing the proposed study is caused by several factors. First of all, we realize the fact that political conflicts often become uncontrolled, so they create threats to stability and security of countries and the whole world. Secondly, we try to structure conflictological knowledge for its more efficient use because it is scattered in different branches of humanitarian sciences. Thirdly, it is necessary to define real opportunities of humanitarian knowledge to ensure the political conflict management. The main purpose of this research is identifying of the dominating humanitarian science which knowledge is deeper and richer for understanding of the essence of the political conflict management. The research of the study also tried to find out what specific knowledge of political conflicts and their management humanitarian sciences have accumulated. Moreover, one of the researchers’ tasks was to define types of political conflicts that are less likely to be managed. The result of the researchers’ work are the findings that the idea of permanence of conflicts in socio-political life, impossibility of getting rid of them and even their particular usefulness for the development of public relations has become dominant in human sciences. There is no humanitarian discipline that could provide political actors with complex knowledge on political conflict management that is why anti-disciplinary approach seems to be the most preferable as it does not accept the limits of knowledge and prefers a holistic understanding of the conflict. And finally, the idea that political conflicts caused by the subjective contradictions are less influenced by managerial efforts because they are often latent in nature and are hardly diagnosed. Their institutionalization is rather a difficult task due to the spontaneity of appearance.
Evgeny V. Suslov, Valery B. Golubev, Sergey A. Zhuravlev, Elena P. Kartashova, Anna Rotar, Andrey Bolshakov and GennadiSalmijanov , 2016. Humanitarian Knowledge as a Resource for the Political Conflict Management. The Social Sciences, 11: 1685-1691.