Sociocultural integration and the problems of identity-based conflicts' Resolution: a regional aspect

The paper deals with the basic factors of identity-based regional conflicts and emphasizes the destabilizing role of the ethnicity politicization. Among the systemic conditions of the escalation of the identity-based conflicts, the author names the following ones: sociocultural transformations, civil identity crisis, ethnopolitical mobilization, traditionalization. The main systemic factor of the conflicts escalation is the gap between post-traditional modernization and regional traditionalism. The conflict determinants remain a major cause of the destructive impact on sociocultural integration of the Russian society. The escalation of ethnic tension occurs when ethnocultural groups tend to perceive themselves as a sacrifice of value claims from the other sociocultural groups. The sociocultural integration based on civil identification, secular values and the rule of law reduces ethnic tensions. It is associated with a high level of solidarity and security. In the North Caucasus region, the main task of the sociocultural integration is the rationalization of ethno-social contradictions during conflict transformation. The sociocultural integration is interpreted as a way to resolve the ethnic conflicts through the consensus and compromise and as a tool of ethnicity inclusion in the symbolic space of civil identity. The essential feature of the sociocultural integration is its ability to transform destructive identity-based conflicts.