CONFLICT POTENTIAL OF NORTH CAUCASUS AREAS: BACKGROUND AND ORIGINS OF MODERN SOCIALITY

Mountainous areas are traditionally regarded as the places of generating armed conflicts and wars. The North Caucasus, inhabited by many ethnic groups, is a mountainous region with special forms of life, methods and mechanisms of existence. After the collapse of the USSR, the mountainous areas of the North Caucasus entered the period of deconstruction and separation, conflicts and wars. The region is still in the state of unresolved crisis. At present the North Caucasus is in a more or less stable situation after two decades of open conflicts, war and terrorist acts. And there arises an acute and vital question "What is next: the process of stabilization or another round of tensions, contradictions and conflicts escalation?" The given paper provides the analysis of the society conflict potential. This methodological technique has enabled to reveal the presence of a destructive potential capable of transferring a conflict from the category of possibility into the category of reality. The study of society conflict has allowed the determination of the prerequisites, factors and conditions for the generation and growth of tensions and contradictions in the region. The problem of genesis and the state of society conflict potential in the period of fundamental transformations of sociality has been considered, the areas of social tension and the regional features of conflict potential have been identified. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK