Conflict paradigm

As we know, mankind during its existence deals with different kinds of conflicts, the most significant of which are observed in unsteady environment in transition periods. What is their nature? What are the reasons of their origin? Is it possible to avoid conflicts, in particular political ones, in management activity? If not, is there any mechanism to solve them? All these and many other issues are the object of interest of scientists, politicians, managers, and conscious people. The analysis of conflict development in management in foreign literature witnesses, that conflict issue occurred in frames of world scientific thought in ancient times because of the need to reveal the reasons of social differentiation and distribution of society according to strata. Chinese thinkers views of the earliest times are worthy of notice.