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Od kilkudziesięciu lat w przestrzeni politycznej rośnie znaczenie partycypacji i jej niekonwencjonalnej formy. W artykule podjęto wybrane aspekty problematyki: (1) Uzasadnienia szerokiego ujęcia właściwości partycypacji, nieograniczonej do wymiaru systemu politycznego; (2) Dylematy związane z rozumieniem partycypacji, jej zgodności/niezgodności z normami systemu demokratycznego, ekskluzywnym i inkluzywnym charakterem, kwestią dobrowolności, rolą przemocy oraz narodowej i międzynarodowej areny aktywności politycznej; (3) Partycypacja niekonwencjonalna jako obiektywny mechanizm polityki, instrument strategii podmiotów władzy i aktywności podmiotów kontestujących dany ład społeczno-polityczny, właściwości i uwarunkowania partycypacji niekonwencjonalnej, w tym jej konkretne formy.

For several decades, the importance of unconventional participation has been growing in the political space. The article deals with selected aspects of the issues: (1) Justification of a broad approach to the features of participation, not limited to the dimension of the political system; (2) Dilemmas related to the understanding of participation, its compliance/non-compliance with the norms of the democratic system, exclusive and inclusive nature, the issue of voluntariness, the role of violence, and the national and international arena of political activity; (3) Unconventional participation as an objective mechanism of politics, an instrument of the strategy of power entities and the activity of entities contesting a given socio-political order, properties and conditions of unconventional participation, including: its specific forms.

ANALYTICAL CATEGORIES OF POLITICAL CONFLICT IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
The article takes up selected issues present in research on social conflicts: 1. The impact of theoretical and methodological pluralism of social sciences on the evolution and current state of the theory of social conflict; 2. The importance of the interdisciplinary approach in explaining research problems and constructing the theory of conflict; 3. Sociological, psychological and political aspects of conflict research, including social inequalities, the influence of cognitive and emotional processes on the perception of reality and conflict activities, the origin and regulation of political conflicts related to the processes of exercising power and the diversification of the political structure of society; 4. The complexity of the basic categories of the political conflict analysis scheme: causes, phases, strategies, and methods of operation of entities, types, and effects.

Political conflict: interdisciplinary and multi-faceted subject matterCategories and theories that describe and explain conflicts and their properties, which derive from soci­ology, psychology and political science, use different levels of social-political reality: from meta-theories for example functional and coercive to theories concerning psychological processes. The aim of social sciences is to study political conflict in the following perspectives: social systems featured by unequal access to valued symbolic and material goods; cognitive, emotional and motivational processes of people partici­pating in conflicts; patterns and actual behaviors in conflict situations; mechanisms of conflict dynamics — cause-and-effect relationships that determine phases of conflict development; functions of conflicts, their creative and destructive effects on individuals, groups, societies and global society; integrative methods of conflict-solving as an element of positive sum game strategy; and at last, shaping the institutions of social systems capable of "civilizing" conflicts through limitation of their destructive sources, methods and effects.

Political theory in the research of professor Andrzej Czajowski

Professor Andrzej Czajowski, an academic scholar and lecturer at the University of Wroclaw, conducted interdisciplinary scientific research in many fields of political science. His main field of interest was political theory. The subjects of his research were, inter alia, the nature of politics and political aspects of other social phenomena, the relations between political power, decisions, actions, agents and structures. Professor Czajowski conducted interdisciplinary research from the perspectives of political theory, political psychology and law. His main contribution to empirical and analytical political theory was the development of a new understanding of different academic concepts in political science, such as politics, power, political decisions and political activity. In the published books and research papers professor Czajowski has developed new meanings of key political science concepts, such as politics, power, political action, political decisions, political attitudes, political conflicts and political thought. His academic works have enriched the language of political science and political theory by adding new classifications and typologies, and contributed to a better understanding of the complexity of politics.