Conflict Prevention among Youth

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of conflict prevention in the youth environment, which is one of the most urgent in the context of modern socio-cultural conditions. The article reveals the role of the organizer of work with youth in organizing the prevention of various conflicts among the youth, discusses some methods, techniques and methods of conflict prevention, as well as techniques for overcoming conflict situations. The content of the article is based on a theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign literature on psychology, sociology and pedagogy in the field of conflict prevention and management among young people, the formation of conflictological competence of young people. Young people, as becoming subjects of social relations, are trying to find and occupy their own niche, to achieve a significant status. The content of the professional activity of a specialist in working with youth is reduced to the analysis of youth problems, to the development of social youth programs and projects. Its main task is to monitor the need to adjust existing and develop new youth projects in accordance with current needs. If a conflict nevertheless arises at any level, then a youth worker should organize its management. Conflict management is an activity aimed at weakening and containing the escalation of the conflict, at resolving the conflict situation, which involves the organization of mediation. This may be the creation of a working group to resolve conflict interactions, psychological work with participants in the conflict, disclosure of the true causes of the development of the conflict, orientation of the participants in the conflict to comply with the norms and rules of conduct.