THE ESSENCE AND INTERFERENTIALITY OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC CONFLICTS (Istota i interferencyjnosc wspólczesnych konfliktów etnicznych)

Ethnic conflicts can be analyzed in many different ways. One of the latest methods is to present them by means of a research model known as the interferential model of ethnic conflict. The model attributes a significant role to the interdisciplinary character of ethnic conflict, meaning that it can be viewed not only from the perspective of politics, ethnicity, religion or ideology, but also by considering the sociological, psychological, historical, economic and cultural planes. Emphasis is also placed on feedback understood as mutual permeation of the spheres of causes and effects, on account of which the factor that causes an ethnic conflict (e.g. ethnic cleansing) might also become its result.