THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND MANAGERIAL PRINCIPLES OF SECURITY ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article, based on the principles of security science, presented the author's approach to the understanding and interpretation of the concept of "security environment", revealed and substantiated, as well as the definition of the content of the semantically similar concepts "safe environment" and, conversely, "dangerous environment". Based on the results of the system approach and content analysis of the main security concepts, several terms derived from the concept of "security environment" were determined, namely: challenge, risk, threat, security situation, security activity, security culture, and their content was also substantiated. The paper developed appropriate structural and semantic logic of connections between the specified terms. The article describes that the development of the security environment is carried out by the relevant subjects of security activities, for which they use the forces and means at their disposal and the relevant legal acts, as well as apply their capabilities, demonstrate readiness for such activities and approve in society a safety culture. Further, the research schematically and meaningfully demonstrated that the security environment develops as a result of management and security activities. The main content of management activities consists of purposeful influence on the living environment to carry out qualitative and/or quantitative transformations in it, which would ensure its transition to a qualitatively new, safer state, otherwise, which would contribute to the development of a safe environment. For this purpose, the study suggested to use three main interconnected ways for the subjects of the security environment, as well as to establish security functions and the corresponding authorities for their implementation. Security activities should be carried out taking into account challenges that have not been dealt with, risks that have been realized, internal and external threats and security situations. The article substantiated that a dangerous environment occurs as a result of the occurrence of danger, i.e. loss of control over the situation or the onset of a crisis state. This scientific intelligence will be useful for everyone interested in the problems of modern security science: scientists, practitioners, civil servants, deputies and other subjects of the security environment, especially in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war.