1. Ethnic conflicts in ethnic hotspots in the contemporary world: Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflicts, ethnic problems in Central Asia (former Soviet Union), ethnic problems in India and Pakistan in South Asia, ethnic problems in the former Yugoslavia (Balkans), ethnic and racial conflicts in Africa, Kurdish problems in Turkey and Iraq, Chechnya in Russia, Northern Ireland in Britain, and Basque separatists in Spain.

2. Specific manifestations of conflicts: Kosovo War, Somali Civil War and Bosnia-Herzegovina War.

3. Palestinian-Israeli conflict, India-Pakistan conflict in South Asia, ethnic conflicts in the Balkans and tribal ethnic conflicts in Africa.