The article aims to study into the phenomenon of ethnic conflicts in multiethnic regions as well as analyze the impact of non-governmental organisations' (NGO) activities in the sphere of conflict resolution, conflict prevention and mediation. Ethnic and religious conflicts are one of global issues of the contemporary world. We can find the premises of such conflicts in nearly any region with multiethnic population, where due to different reasons cross-cultural relations (relations between either ethnic or religious groups) are characterized by a rather high level of tensions. The ubiquitous phenomenon of ethnic conflicts is a constantly increasing global problem. Nowadays nationalist upheavals and ethnic violence �pose challenges to the cohesion of states� and are an obvious obstacle to the democratic peace project. Unfortunately, in most of the cases states have failed to resolve the conflicts. Frequently interference of state even exacerbated the problem. Under the circumstances, the rescue may come from the increasing sector of global civil society. The given research will apply constructivist approach (network theory) to argue that the activities by global civil society actors (particularly NGOs) can provide effective mechanisms in the process of ethnic conflict resolution. The authors intend to examine a case (North Caucasus regional part of The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)) of successful conflict resolution experience - in Daghestan Republic (Russian Federation) where Government failed to resolve the conflict, whereas active involvement (interference) of NGOs and other civil society organisations positively facilitated the peace-building process.

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