Methodological Features of Teaching the Discipline "Conflictology" for Students of the Specialty "Law"

The article analyzes the features of a balanced methodological approach to teaching conflictology for students and trainees of legal specialties. The common and distinctive features of the presentation of the material from the point of view of psychology, sociology, pedagogy, and law are emphasized. Attention is drawn to the inadmissibility for a lawyer of replacing his own professional approaches with psychological techniques or general sociological analysis. On the other hand, one should not be confined to one's own sphere of professional activity. The relevant achievements of general conflictology and conflictology of relevant branches can be studied by a student and used by a lawyer, but taking into account the requirements of his/her specialty. In particular, knowledge of conflict psychology is extremely important for the successful activity of a representative of such a rapidly developing profession as a mediator. The article focuses on the importance of building conflict models, preliminary preparation for research, and developing theoretical and methodological thinking. For this purpose, knowledge and skills from such disciplines as philosophy and logic, analytical, and critical thinking can be used. An important role can be played by the possession of modern means of electronic visualization of diagrams, tables, graphs, mental maps and other UX management tools. Criminal Codes can be used as a special (limit) model of a conflict situation, its dynamics, consequences and corresponding reaction at the social level. Therefore, the article presents individual elements and examples of conflict modeling based on the Criminal Code of Ukraine.