Kompetencijų Vaidmuo Sprendžiant Tarpkultūrinius Konfliktus
The Role of Competencies While Solving Intercultural Conflicts

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the nature of intercultural conflicts, the reasons of their rise and their types. It reveals the mechanism of intercultural conflicts. Although often the differences of cultures is emphasized as a substantial reason of intercultural conflicts, in real life communicating individuals who differ by their character features and their cultural and intellectual levels cause conflicts. Besides, a quite vital social phenomena as superstitions exists – a tendentious and hostile preconceived attitude. Superstitions have a big emotional critical mass, which place phenomenon in a twisted light and form a negative aggressive outlook of them. Superstitions stimulate negative forms of internecine communication which spill out into ethnic and intercultural conflicts. A proper attention for the acquisition of intercultural competencies (linguistic, cultural and communicative) can become an effective assumption to amortize intercultural conflicts and to stimulate a complete communication and collaboration of representatives from different cultures.

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