ETHICS EDUCATION OF UKRAINIAN BORDER GUARDS: CODE OF CONDUCT AND MORAL CHALLENGES OF WAR

Olha Honcharenko; Yulia Adamchuk

doi:10.17770/bsm.v5i10.8321

Authors

Olha Honcharenko Doctor of Sciences, Associate Professor of the of Psychology, Pedagogy and Socio-economic disciplines Department, the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (UA)
Yulia Adamchuk PhD in Educational, Pedagogical Sciences, Senior Lecturer of the Psychology, Pedagogy and Socio-Economic Disciplines Department, the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (UA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/bsm.v5i10.8321

Keywords:

border guards, code of conduct, ethics education, war, Ukraine

Abstract

The article offers to consider the experience of teaching professional ethics to future Ukrainian border guard officers. The purpose of the article is: a) to analyse the Code of conduct of Ukrainian border guards; b) to determine the purpose and ethical basis of ethics education of Ukrainian border guards; c) to describe its features due to the moral challenges of the Russian-Ukrainian war (2014 – ). The article concludes that: a) the peculiarity of the Code of Conduct for Ukrainian border guards is their focus on the formation of professional autonomy; b) the purpose of ethics education of Ukrainian border guards is to implement this Code of Conduct in the specific conditions of professional activity of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine on the basis of modern ethical theories; c) the moral challenges of the Russian-Ukrainian war are reflected in the course of professional ethics for future Ukrainian border guard officers in the form of consideration of such issues of ethical theory as just and unjust wars, moral justifications for war, violence, as well as the identification and assimilation of moral aspects of the combat experience of Ukrainian border guards.

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