Psychological Features of Socialization of the Young Generation in the Conditions of Post-Conflict Society

The article is devoted to identifying and substantiating the psychological characteristics of the socialization of the younger generation in a post-conflict society. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that in the modern world the number of regional conflicts is growing, despite all the warnings from international organizations and leaders of movements for the struggle for a culture of peace. Regional conflicts are often protracted and long-term, they affect the material and moral resources of the region's ethnic groups, thereby causing irreparable harm to the region and the whole world. The purpose of this article is to describe the psychological characteristics of the socialization of the younger generation in a post-conflict society. The objectives of the research are to analyze the ethnic conflict from the standpoint of psychology and to identify the psychological characteristics of the socialization of youth in a post-conflict society. The research methods were theoretical comparative analysis of psychological sources and included observation of the population in a situation of ethnic conflict and after it (1990-2020). The results of the study were theoretical conclusions about understanding the socialization of the younger generation as gaining experience in overcoming the consequences of ethnopolitical conflict and the psychological characteristics of this socialization. The specific features included: understanding and awareness by the young generation of the impossibility of a military adjustment of an ethnopolitical conflict and the only way to resolve it to implement a peaceful solution of the conflict; assimilation of knowledge about the genesis of both the conflict situation itself and the subjects of the conflict and the countries, peoples, surrounding this conflict, etc .; creation of conditions for the entogenesis of each nation, which is part of the national composition of the country, and understanding of its role in a multinational state; the presence of authoritative leaders ("Father of the Nation") and their advisers, or persons close to the leader; taking into account various ethnosocial and ethnopsychological characteristics of a people, nation or ethnos; determination of the "strength" of the ethnic in the self-consciousness of the people; the impossibility and inadmissibility of the "transfer" of the regional conflict by the young generation to another territory, another region and at another time; inadmissibility of covering future generations in a conflict situation. The results include practical recommendations for building further socio-psychological work to socialize the young generation in a post-conflict society. Research prospects are presented in the development of a sociopsychological program for specific regions and the identification of mechanisms and patterns of socialization of the young generation in a post-conflict society in the 21st century.