CONTEMPORARY WARS AND ARMED CONFLICTS

The characteristics of contemporary trends suggest that, in parallel with the changes that globalization has caused in most aspects of human life, the changes have taken place in the reasons for the emergence of conflicts in the new environment, in the ways of solving the newly emerging problems, but also in the view of the growing confrontation in the world. Each of these associations contains asymmetry as the basic characteristic, and we declare such types of conflict as asymmetric armed conflicts or wars, or the use of armed force in response to asymmetric security threats. In most cases, security threats are based on threats to larger regions and even reach a global dimension. The paper will try to capture a thread that has led to the fact that modern conflicts are no longer viewed with the mandatory sign "military", and that the result does not have to be mandatory use of military effects. Through the processing of the characteristics of modern conflicts, the processes that lead to a shift in thinking about the search for solutions to conflicts from predominantly military to some other ways of solving will be pointed out.