ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

DOI 10.23671/VNC.2018.66.11464

The article is devoted to the analysis of reconstruction such powerful reserve of the ethnic heritage as ethnic public peacemaking with its specific traditions, norms, institutions and regulations. In particular, we consider the contribution of the monographic research of T. T. Daueva “Conflict-generating Factors and Peacemaking Resources in the Ossetian Society (the end of XIX – beginning of XX centuries)” in the study of folk traditions of peace maintaining. The fact, that the author used the field material collected in the North and South Ossetia, as well as among Anatolian Ossetians, is highlighted as an undeniable advantage over other similar studies. The article emphasizes the relevance and timeliness of such studies, their theoretical value and an invaluable practical resource. The importance of scientific studies of peacekeeping practices is particularly evident in the conditions of multiethnic regions. In particular, in the North Caucasus, civilizational and cultural space, historically formed as a result of complex polylogue of traditional ethnic cultures of various peoples. The scientific study of historical and cultural, ethnic experience of establishing civil harmony, the diversity of composition systems, conciliation strategies, legal and communicative components of ethnic forms of legal proceedings, ethno-cultural traditions of peacemaking retains its social relevance. Another aspect of the significance of such research for today is the system of legal proceedings in Russia, which provides certain opportunities for turning to the historical experience of mediation. The country's existing programmes are implemented through public-justice partnerships, but the most successful model in the North Caucasus is the model of reconciliation based on a traditional and still viable mediation system. In this sense, the peacekeeping resource of ethno-cultural heritage can find its extremely positive application as an active tool of social, cultural and state building in such a multinational and multicultural country as Russia.

The author emphasises conviction in the promising prospects of historical and ethnographic research of law, on the Ossetian material as well.

Keywords: peacemaking traditions, ethnic heritage, national legal system, mediation, conciliation strategies, common law.

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