Complex peace operations, as opposed to traditional ones, require a multinational structure and cooperation with several military and non-military subjects. Trying to be effective, doing the job as well as possible and surviving the situation of living in a limited area with formal and informal interaction with a small number of people takes well-defined rules and procedures as well as the awareness of the importance of integrating mechanisms. Case study of UNIFIL was accomplished.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29837917
This article offers a general overview of civilian crisis management in the EU, its mechanisms and instruments, the nature of civil-military cooperation (coordination), and an overview of civilian crisis management missions. Particular attention will be paid to the EULEX Mission in Kosovo as a case-study of how participating civilian experts judge both the mission itself and the mission preparations (i.e. selection and training of personnel, mission strategy, mission related activities, the problems identified etc.). The article will argue that seemingly trivial operational details, such as personnel selection, the quality of pre-deployment training and advance preparation are important factors which, if not properly coordinated, could jeopardise EU goals in the field of crisis management. The author also presumes that unregulated civil-military cooperation and coordination can lead to the failure of crisis management operations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3158216
At the onset of 2011 an unprecedented wave of social unrest and political upheaval began to sweep across the Middle East and North Africa. Following the first demonstrations in Tunisia, and the flight of its President Ben Ali to Saudi Arabia, the wave has engulfed much of the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco to Bahrain. While some rulers have abdicated peacefully, violence has been a constant. In the majority of cases, the ruling regimes met the spontaneous, massive, and peaceful demonstrations with brutal police repression; some even called in the regular army to strike down unarmed civilians with heavy conventional weapons
COBISS.SI-ID: 31428189
The process of shaping an integral critical infrastructure protection policy has turned out to be very demanding due to the growing network complexity of critical infrastructures and deep institutional and policy fragmentation. We argue in this paper that knowing the cross-sectoral similarities among functionally different sectors of critical infrastructures can improve the integral approach. The results of our comparative expert-based cross-sectoral scanning of critical infrastructures in the case of an EU member state confirmthe cross-sectoral convergence of several variables. Successful integral and cross-sectoral policy will need to focus on joint threats and risks, objects with similar functions across sectors, as well as multicriticalareas, objects and links, including immaterial links. Asymmetric cross-sectoral attention should also focus on those groups of infrastructures with an instant crisis impact on society, groups of the most influential and most sensitive infrastructures according to their network position, and on managing jointly expected cross-border cross-sectoral effects
COBISS.SI-ID: 31355229
The article analyses the casualty aversion among the Slovenian society considering three dimensions; namely the histo-political, the socio-demographic and the cultural dimension. The Slovenian public opinion survey show a continuously strong risk aversion among the Slovenians therefore the purpose of the article is: 1) establish how can be strong risk aversion explained by selected dimensions; 2) identify what part of the population is most risk aversive. Results reveal an existence of a cultural pattern safety bubble vs. risk awareness. As the risk aversion model reveals the Slovenian society present a safety bubble, with strong risk aversion and very narrow selection of activities worth making sacrifices.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31879005