The Construction: School "For War" or School "For Peace"

Abstract

The article focuses on the question “According to public perceptions, school for what is the conscription: school for war or school for peace; school for military training and education or school for national (civil) awareness and respon-sibility?”. The reason for posing this problem is the widespread public opinion that the return of "the compulsory military conscription" is an opportunity for prevention from certain negative social processes, which developed recently in Bulgaria. In fact, the article tries to indicate some possible factors, which influence public position about the benefits and negatives of the military training and education.

Keywords

• ethno-cultural problems
• military education
• conscription
• soldier
• identity
• memory