Spiritual-moral problems of the national security concept of the Republic of Armenia

Nowadays with other internal problems formation of those value-based world outlook issues, activity of state-public-political institutions becomes a priority in Armenia, which can assure nation’s spiritual-moral unity, therefore security. Collective monograph “Spiritual-moral problems of the national security concept of the Republic of Armenia” is devoted to the study of above-mentioned issues. The first chapter presents the definitions of “national security”, “moral-spiritual security”, “value”, “value system”, “culture”, main moral-spiritual values. Main concern is being announced that modern Armenian society is in the phase of loss of spirit and values, which has become a serious threat to nation’s moral and spiritual security. Latest and current cultural policy doesn’t form a new cultural thinking, new strategy, especially in terms of national security. The second chapter discusses education and science issues, the activity of educational and scientific institutions, intellectuals, public and political structures, church in terms of nation’s spiritual and moral security and stipulates that educational system is involved in such processes the results of which are not yet clear. Meanwhile the school and the university are facing serious problems.The university fails in man-specialist-citizen trinity assurance and stopped being the holder of national values. Unfortunately there are no intellectual individuals with high reputation and public recognition, heard by society. Though the presence of sole intellectuals, we have not intellectual group as the face of the nation's intellectual and moral characteristics. Referring to the public and political structures and church’s activities in terms of nation’s spiritual and moral security, the security, meanwhile today it has become one of the most concerning spheres. During last twenty years also Armenian people faces the social squalor and legal exposure. Despair, national pessimism became dominant trends, which promote the emigration and penetration of different religious groups. In its turn the church needs to moralize its internal life, otherwise it can’t fulfill its main function of unifying religious people around its spiritual pivot and counteracts growing activity and propaganda of different religious directions, sects and organizations. The third chapter covers the analysis of mass culture in terms of moral-spiritual security, particularly its mentioned that it faces simplification of mass culture, wrench of moral and legal regulators as well as anti-values propaganda, threatening the whole spiritual-moral field and nation’s future. The last part presents the conclusions and recommendations of analysis, which in author’s group opinion can have its input in the improvement of nation’s moral-spiritual situation and assurance of national and moral-spiritual security of Armenian nation. The research group was leaded by complementary methodological approach (the harmonization of critical and constructive approaches) having main paradigm of patriotism in its base.