Data for: The Phenomenon of Conflict: In Search of a Unified Theory for Effective Management

Stages of growth of the theoretical potential of various sociological schools and directions, related to conflictological problems, are outlined. The preconditions for a theoretically justified possibility of forming an integral epistemological picture of conflictological knowledge, revealing the main methodological approaches to the construction of a unified theory of conflict are shown.

The main problem associated with the formation of the conflictological paradigm of social knowledge is understood as a virtually unavailable single and integral theory of conflict that would satisfy the needs and requirements of all specialists engaged in its study. A unified conflict theory creates the basis for a new paradigm of the social sciences, allows different specialists to work in the same conceptual and instrumental field; unifies and simultaneously expands the problems of applied research, provides them with reliable methodological and theoretical prerequisites; greatly accelerates the process of theoretical and applied research on the theory and practice of conflict; radically changes the usual notions about the conflict as the least desirable, and its absence as the most desirable state; thereby freeing these views from common, but erroneous associations.