A comprehensive study of management policy of post-conflict territory is done. It is characterized as a management process that is localized within the territory affected by the armed conflict. It is seen as a resource by various political actors and requires the establishment of institutional order and overcoming the consequences of the conflict. Management policy of post-conflict territories was studied through its components: “post-conflict territory”, “armed conflict”, “post-conflict”, “postconflict management”. The study of the subject became possible due to interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches and methods of political science, political geography, geopolitics, international relations, political regionalism, conflict studies, law and management. It is substantiated that in the context of studying the management policy of post-conflict territory, there is no need to study the territory as a subject of conflict. The expediency of studying such a territory as a space affected by the armed conflict is argued. As a result of the conflict the territory has a ruined system of governance or weak institutional forms of development that require development “from scratch” or reintegration into a national high-level system. The specifics of the implementation of management practices in several postconflict territories is determined. These are: part of the territory of Croatia - Slavonia, Baranya and Western Srijem, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sierra Leone. Within the categorical apparatus of outlined sciences and research areas, “post-conflict” is defined as a stage of conflict of interests between two or more actors, which occurs after the completion of the main stages of the conflict. The author considered cases where two or more states, or the state(s) represented by the government and a certain organized insurgent group(s) became the subjects of armed confrontation. To detail “post-conflict” using the categories of political science, international law and international relations, a description of the forms and types of the end of the conflict is provided. The author's concept of the signs of the end of the conflict is provided. These are: 1) the parties to the conflict agree on post-conflict management, 2) the party (parties) or a third party obtains full sovereignty (control) over the territory previously covered by the conflict and 3) the end of the conflict and the formation of legitimate institutions is recognized by international community. The importance of international recognition for ending the conflict is justified by the concept of “separatist states” that have not received such recognition, and a comparative analysis of the cases of Kosovo and Transnistria. The use of the terms “management policy”,“management of post-conflict territory”, “crisis management”. The conflict of influence and strategies of international and national actors in the management of post-conflict territories is revealed, which is substantiated by studying the genesis of the attitude of international and national actors to the management of post-conflict territories and their political interests in post-conflict territories. It is stated that in post-conflict territories, international organizations perform their statutory functions, thus justifying their functioning in a crisis of international law and international relations, and world leaders realize their geopolitical interests by implementing a model of “liberal peace” in areas vulnerable to external influences. The study introduces the concept of peacebuilding as an activity to establish peace (order of the system), which supports and strengthens institutions that promote peaceful coexistence and minimize conflict-generating factors. Based on these criteria, the management policy is studied through institutional and noninstitutional practices in three sectors of public life: from the security sector, from economics and from the socio-cultural sphere. Selected practices are described and analyzed based on post-institutional and synergetic approaches of political science. Based on the proposed conflict of strategies of national and international levels regarding the management of post-conflict territories, two “ideal” (from the side of its initiator) models of national and international management of post-conflict territories are proposed. The models are based on the experience of three postconflict territories – Croatia, Tajikistan and Rwanda. Key words: conflict and post-conflict, armed conflict, post-conflict territory, management policy of post-conflict territory, management practices, peacebuilding.
