CIVIL-MILITARY INTERACTION AND THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS: SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES, POLICY AND PRACTICE

INTRODUCTION Today, in the face of hybrid conflicts and the challenges of a new generation, it is undeniable that military education and science must ensure a high level of officer professionalism. Professionalism should be formed on the basis of justice and legal education of military personnel, and therefore – to act as a guarantor of the fighting capacity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Given this, the purpose of our study is to analyze the promising areas of development of modern military education and science. In the process of reforming both the higher education system as a whole and higher military education in particular, we need to emphasize the need to train professional and motivated military specialists in the field of civilmilitary relations, who are capable of effective communication and meeting the needs of the civilian population of Ukraine, taking into account the tasks the armed forces. The situation in eastern Ukraine has shown that under the current conditions it is necessary to create an effective system of civil-military cooperation, which should include the professional training of military specialists in the specialty “Civil-military cooperation”. This training aims not only at the acquisition of military-humanitarian, military-professional and military-special competencies, but will help to form a system thinking and develop a reasoned position for the fulfillment of the tasks for the purpose, including for the purpose of post-conflict settlement and reconstruction of the affected regions. The full implementation of these tasks requires a thorough legal knowledge. To this end, military specialists are trained at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Military Institute at the specialty “Civil-Military Cooperation” within the specialty 081 “Law”. This training is carried out on the basis of the Professional Standard of the Tactical Officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under Military specialty 850400 “Civil-Military Cooperation”1