Problems of social environment research: inter-ethnic and inter-confessional conflict in higher education institutions
The specific character of interethnic and inter-confessional conflicts in the university environment is studied. The key tasks that arise before those who by virtue of their duties or for other reasons try to settle the arising conflicts are defined. It is considered that interethnic conflict is often actually understood as a conflict of quite a different nature. Selected elements of a mechanism for ‘redressing’ such conflicts or moving them from a situation of confrontation to one of dialogue or even constructive cooperation, which is much more difficult but more effective in the long term, have been proposed.