SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES OF COOPERATION IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Abstract: The paper presents issues related to cooperation in the process of crisis management, which connects with a wide range of matters concerning many scientific disciplines. Consideration of the nature, scope and character of cooperation in crisis management just in certain aspects not only narrows down the issues, but often distorts what the most essential is in it. This question is fundamental in science and is quite easily noticeable when following the development of scientific thought. The study includes the evolution of scientific ideas in the field of security and management sciences. It gradually passes from purely organizational issues, through rational decision theory and praxeology favoring it, operational research theory, and mathematical economics to behavioral theory rejecting almost completely the existing scientific achievements for the psychological and sociological conditions of cooperation in crisis manage-ment from the systemic perspective. That was made under the assumption that the practice of collaboration in crisis management reveals that the matters mentioned above must be considered in this process. Omission or understatement of any of them most frequently leads to failure, and thus to farreaching consequences of cooperation. The paper is based on the results of research conducted in the scientific discipline of security sciences. The authors' statements are divided into several parts. After the introduction, the characteristics of the crisis management system, theoretical aspects of cooperation and practical aspects of developing plans and schedules for collaboration between elements of the crisis management system are presented. The whole work finishes with a summary, in which reference was made to the as-sumptions of considerations and its parts, emphasizing their cognitive values.