THE PREPARATION OF CADETS OF A MILITARY INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
There are recommendations in the article about the training of cadets of military higher education institution for the observance of international humanitarian law in military and professional classes (tactics, engineering support, medical support, etc.). The major role in training of cadets of a higher military education institutions belongs to the teacher, who is responsible for training cadets' own discipline. It is the teacher who ought to give knowledge of law of armed conflicts to the cadets and teach them to observe these rules in a fighting situation. Training of cadets has to consider the fact that officers are obliged to train cadets practical actions providing observance of the specified norms in a fighting situation. The experience of training cadets allows us to point out some methodological recommendations to teachers of military-professional disciplines on high-quality and effective training of students to rules of engagement taking into account norms of international humanitarian law. They are the following: training the rules of law should provoke trust in cadets; teaching should be an integral part in training military-professional disciplines; training should be simple and continuous, its basic principles are reasonability, complexity, sufficiency; the result of the training is an acquisition of the corresponding skills and abilities. When analyzing and assessing a lesson the teacher should analyze the actions of trainees for observance of norms of international humanitarian law. Thus special attention has to be paid to inadmissibility of application of forbidden ways of conducting combat operations; training should include special psychological preparation, should be followed by imitation of fight's factors and influence of the opponent. The methods used for the first and second courses cadets, whose reaction has to have automatic character will differ from senior courses cadets, who face problems which demand reflections and studying for their solution.