Keyword: «prevention of interethnic conflicts»

The relevance of the topics investigated by the authors is due to the fact that today a number of specific moral and ethical requirements are imposed on an employee of the penitentiary system, namely: attitude towards a person as a supreme value, respect and protection of rights, freedoms and human dignity in accordance with international and domestic legal norms and universal principles of morality, tolerant interethnic interaction and the ability to have constructive intercultural dialogue. Thus, the requirements imposed by the state and society on an employee of the penitentiary system indicate the need to develop the ability to be tolerant among cadets of higher educational institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. The purpose of the study was to theoretically substantiate and experimentally test the proposed conditions for the formation of interethnic tolerance among cadets at a higher educational institution of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. The study was conducted by the authors using the following methods: questioning (the questionnaire was worked out by the authors) and testing (test for diagnosing the ability to empathy by A. Mehrabian, N. Epstein and the tests "Assessment of the level of assimilation" by V. P. Bespalko, Yu. G. Tatura in the authors’ modification). The main results of the work include the implementation of the set of pedagogical conditions proposed by the authors for the formation of interethnic tolerance among cadets and an increase in knowledge on ethnic issues, a change in attitudes towards representatives of other ethnic groups in a positive direction, a decrease in the percentage of respondents who dislike people of other nationalities in the experimental group. The conclusions and proposals made by the authors for improving the educational process in higher educational institutions of the penitentiary system and the possibility of further scientific developments on this topic represent the theoretical significance of the work. The practical significance of the work is the experience of the formation of interethnic tolerance among cadets considered in the article on the example of the Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, since under similar conditions it can be used by educational organizations of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in order to increase the effectiveness of educational work among cadets.