Political stability and conflict: research on the relationship

Epistemological studies in Philosophy, Social and Political Sciences 4 (23):49-58 (2013)
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Political stability, political science as an object of study is a multidimensional problem. Since the area of science has not developed a clear interpretation of the relationship between conflict and stability, one of the important aspects of the study of this problem is to determine the role of conflict in modern society, and to investigate their influence on the formation of political stability. The importance of research problem sin this perspective is enhanced by the fact that it points the way to overcome the one-sided, positive- negative attitude towards the conflict, and provides a broader, multi-dimensional understanding of its role in public relations, as the paradigm of conflict resolution allows us to investigate the formation of political stability in the opposite plane. Today one of the most fruitful ways to develop such a theory of political stability, which is so necessary to society, is its consideration as a special case of a state political process, due to its other state in the first place - conflict. This path involves identifying their relationships, and identity matches their inherent features, analysis of the role that belongs to the political conflict and its impact on political stability. The study found that conflicts reduce stress, thus contributing to the stabilization and integration of intragroup relations, giving participants the opportunity of expressing direct conflict conflicting requirements, prevent stagnation, stimulate interest and curiosity, acting as a mediator by which articulate problems, their solutions are, are the basis for social change, clearly separates the different groups to allow for the establishment of group and personal identity; addition, decentralized groups and free society, conflict, aimed at resolving tensions between adversaries, often plays a stabilizing and integrative role. Allowing crisp and clear expression of contrary claims, these social systems are able to improve their structure by eliminating sources of conflict. Multiple conflicts that they feel help them get rid of the sources of antagonism and achieve internal cohesion. These systems provide for themselves through the institutionalization of conflict, an important stabilizing mechanism. In addition to this intragroup conflict often breathes new life into existing standards or new causes. It is important to note that political stability and political conflict is not definitely opposed to each other, nor are they in a dialectical «cross assignation» and «cross negation.» In essence, being a manifestation of social needs and interests, reflecting the changing balance of forces participants of public relations and political conflict and political stability perform another very important function - providing theoretical possibility of building a sort of « scales « of conflict and stability. But it should be emphasized again: they are two different, though interconnected dimensions rather than characteristics that exclude or include each other. Availability and defined in a way a variable dimension, size and intensity of one of them does not mean the absence or corresponding increase / decrease in the other.

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