Abstract: The subject of the article is the methodological foundations of conflict research. Based on the approaches and principles established in Russian science, author try to identify problems in the methodology of the conflict, which, according to the author, have become noticeable with a closer study of established ideas, and offer possible solutions to these problems.
The methodological basis of the research is the dialectical-materialistic method as a method of cognition, as well as systemic, synergetic and informational approaches. Theoretical methods were used in research activities: structural and functional; comparative; theoretical analysis of literary sources, as well as empirical methods: the study of experience and observation.
The results of the study include:
1. Clarification of the place and role of contradiction in the conflict.
2. Clarification of the relationship between the contradiction and the object of the conflict.
3. The assumption of the need to expand existing ideas about groups of objects of conflict and to introduce into scientific circulation the concepts of self-esteem of a person as an object of conflict.
4. Conclusion about the need to include the information approach as one of the leading approaches at the general scientific level of methodological analysis of conflictology.

The novelty of the study is as follows:
1. On the assumption that it is possible to consider the self-esteem of a person as an object of conflict and the statement on this basis that there are no "non-objective" conflicts. Any conflict arises as a result of a mature actualized contradiction and is based on an object and a subject.
2. In the statement that the methodological analysis of conflictology at the general scientific level should be based on three methods of scientific cognition: a systematic, synergetic and informational approach.
The study of the information array available in Russian science on the methodology of conflict allows us to conclude that it is necessary to increase research work in this problem field.