Interethnic relations in modern Dagestan society: assessment and prospects

The state of the interethnic sphere and the processes taking place within it are indicators of measuring the socio-economic, political, spiritual, ideological picture of society as a whole. In this perspective, it is important to analyze the degree of influence of internal and external factors on the interethnic area, the unresolved problems that are relevant to the population, which can play a destructive function and destabilize society. The author's hypothesis about the fallacy of the opinion that economically  developed states can not be afraid of conflicts on their territory (because it is impossible to ensure full ethnic equality and equal access to the material benefits of all the peoples who live in it) is confirmed by the results of the study: the interviewed Dagestani youth sees the nature of conflicts "in human nature, therefore conflicts are inevitable," although other reasons can provoke confrontation of different nature – territorial disputes and lack of mutual understanding between peoples. At the same time, Dagestani youth in general positively assesses  the interethnic situation with the argumentation of the existence of "favorable relations between representatives of different peoples" and the absence of interethnic confrontation. A negative assessment of the interethnic situation in the territory of their residence is characteristic of a significantly smaller part of the young generation of Dagestanis surveyed, and here it is possible to distinguish representatives of ethnic formations who are in a state of apparently unexpressed ethnic conflict with a number of living peoples.

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