Legal Education as a Method for Preventing Legal Conflicts

Objectives: to determine the essence and functional orientation of conflicts in the legal sphere; indicate the concept and meaning of prevention of legal conflicts; designate the place of legal education in the system of preventive measures to prevent the emergence of legal conflicts; analyze the content of legal education; to reveal the content of the forms of legal education, applicable to the prevention of legal conflicts; consider the problem of criteria for the social effectiveness of legal education in order to prevent legal conflicts. Conclusions: a legal conflict is a confrontation with the opposing legal interests of the subjects, it can have both a positive and a negative functional orientation; prevention of legal conflicts, as a specific type of social activity, allows timely identification of the factors of occurrence of legal conflicts; legal education is one of the main and effective ways to prevent legal conflicts; legal educational activity is characterized by the use of specific legal educational measures: forms, means, methods; most often, in order to prevent legal conflicts, the following forms of legal education are used: legal training, legal propaganda, legal practice, self-education, legal education, legal information and others; the state needs to develop a clear strategy to raise the legal awareness of the population in order to reduce the level of conflict in society.

legal training, legal conflict, prevention of legal conflicts, legal education, prevention of offenses