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A survey of subjective opinions of population about seismic resistance of residential buildings
Get PDFThe unpredictability and the seriousness of the potential earthquake consequences for people and residential buildings in Serbia imply the need for improving the resilience of local communities. The paper presents the results of a quantitative research regarding the level and factors of influence on the awareness of citizens about the seismic resistance of their residential buildings to earthquake consequences. Multiple-point random sampling was used to survey 1,018 citizens (face to face) during 2017 in 8 local communities: Kraljevo, Lazarevac, Jagodina, Mionica, Prijepolje, Vranje, Lapovo and Kopaonik. The questionnaire consisted of two segments: questions on demographic, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of respondents and questions regarding resistance of residential buildings to earthquake consequences. The results show that 35% of respondents state that they live in residential buildings that are not resistant to earthquakes, while 70.7% state that they live in buildings built of reinforced concrete, which are considered safe. Beside that 9.2% of respondents examined the resistance of their facilities to earthquake consequences. Inferential statistical analyses show that men to a greater extent than women state that their buildings are resistant to earthquake consequences. Starting from the multidimensionality of citizen vulnerability to earthquakes, it is necessary to conduct additional studies and further elucidate the sociological dimension of vulnerability and resilience
Global health threats and health protection
No full textGlobal health is defined as the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. The term “global health” is rapidly replacing the older terminology of “international health,” and it is focused on worldwide health improvement, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders. World Health Organization (WHO) is coordinator, strategic planner and leader of global health initiatives in responding to main global health threats, in international and political context. Other important agencies impacting global health include UNICEF, World Food Programme, World Bank, and United Nations with its important declaration of the Millennium Development Goals. Public health security consider the activities required, both proactive and reactive, to minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that endanger the collective health of world populations. Important global health problems are major epidemics of infectious diseases, emergencies caused by severe weather conditions, natural disasters, and other health consequences that result from improper behavior. In the last decade migrations appear to be linked with numerous health risks, both for the migrants themselves, and for the population in the countries they have migrated to. In the modern world there is always a real possibility that some unexpected event disrupts the regular situation and living conditions, and cause an emergency. The main global health treats are epidemic-prone infectious diseases, weather-related events, natural catastrophes, man-made disasters and other health consequences of human behavior. Lack of global health security has an impact on public health, demographic, political and economic stability, tourism, trade and access to the health services. Each country uses laws to regulate declaring and managing of emergency situations, as well as the system of protection and rescue of people, material and cultural goods and the environment from natural disasters, technical-technological disasters, consequences of terrorism, war and other disasters. Emergency situations require special organization of health protection systems for public health protection. International Health Regulations (IHR) are a framework for prevention and control of global health threats, such as global pandemic response. The IHR, coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), play an important role in global collaboration to meet threats to public health and public security. The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) is organized within WHO, and is responsible for monitoring of specific diseases which appear for the first time (emerging diseases) or reoccurring diseases with a large epidemic potential (reemerging diseases). Global programs are prepared and run by world leaders in epidemiology, surveillance, informatics, management, laboratory systems, and other essential disciplines. Partnerships between countries and ministries of health lead to improved quantity and quality of critical public health services, better global health and public security
Normativni okvir za suprotstavljanje trgovini ljudskim organima
Get PDFTrafficking in human organs is a specific and complex criminal phenomenon that takes place in several phases, with the participation of a large number of actors, often covering several jurisdictions. To effectively countering are necessary conceptual and terminological demarcation of organ trafficking from other similar phenomena, fundamental scientifically research of its shape and dynamics, and the construction of an adequate legislative framework, both at the national and international level. This paper first analyses the conceptual - terminological framework in which research of organ trafficking is range, and then presents a review and analysis of the development of ethical and normative international standards aimed at prevention and suppression this phenomenon. In the end, we analysed the current solutions in the domestic legislation. Nowadays, there are two parallel legislative regime that regulate the matter of organ trafficking. The first legislative regime that organ trafficking treated exclusively as a modality of transnational crime of human trafficking, and a second, recent, that organ trafficking treats as forbidden (incriminating) activity that violates a regulatory system of organ (tissue cells) transplantation.Trgovina ljudskim organima je specifična i složena kriminalna pojava, koja se odvija u više faza, uz učešće većeg broja aktera, često obuhvatajući nekoliko jurisdikcija. Za efikasno suprotstavljanje toj pojavi neophodni su pojmovno i terminološko razgraničenje trgovine organima od drugih sličnih pojava, naučno fundirano istraživanje njenih oblika i dinamike, te izgradnja adekvatnog normativnog okvira, i na nacionalnom i na međunarodnom nivou. U ovom radu prvo je analiziran pojmovno-terminološki okvir u kome se kreću istraživanja trgovine organima, a zatim je izložen pregled i analizan razvoj etičkih i normativnih međunarodnih standarda usmerenih na sprečavanje i suzbijanje te pojave. Na kraju su analizirana aktuelna rešenja u domaćem zakonodavstvu. Danas paralelno postoje dva normativna režima koja regulišu materiju trgovine organima. Jedan trgovinu organima tretira isključivo kao modalitet transnacionalnog krivičnog dela trgovine ljudima, a drugi, noviji, kao zabranjenu (inkriminisanu) delatnost kojom se krši normativni sistem koji reguliše transplantaciju organa (tkiva, ćelija)
Sajber bezbednost i zaštita od visokotehnološkog kriminala u Republici Srbiji - strateški i pravni okvir
No full textOverview of elements of national logistics system in the Republic of Serbia
Get PDFThere are various interpretations of the concept of national logistics. According to one of such interpretations, national logistics is a system which is comprised of resources, infrastructure and economy as its elements. This system functions in a general milieu set by the regulatory framework while interconnections of the system elements are established on the basis of mutual conditionality and interaction. Consideration of the elements of national logistics of a particular country renders the given term more concrete and specific features. This paper addresses the elements of the national logistics system of the Republic of Serbia. Thus, a general overview of the system concerned is being presented since an elaborate description is not possible within the given framework. Such a general overview of the elements of the national logistics system provides the basis for assessment of different systems in the country, from economic to security systems
Bojno polje praxis - realističko-konstruktivistički duumvirat i 'posrtanje' liberalnog internacionalizma
Get PDFThe Great Debates are an important stage in the development of International Relations (IR) as a science. However, the 'exactness' of its chronology and content, as well as the precise determination of the actors and results, is questionable on several grounds. Therefore, relying on this, often contradictory, interpretations of the outcome of the Great Debates, little can be said about the current state of the mentioned theoretical dialogue. Today, IR scholars mostly discuss abandoning the idea of macro theory and the pluralistic silence in which medium‐scale theories resonate in peace. However, this 'diagnosis' still does not give us an answer to the question of who really won the fight of so‐called big theories, or which theoretical paradigm today has the greatest influence within the disciplinary field? Applying the idea of reflexivity between the theory of international relations and the practice of foreign policy, the author of this paper rejects the restrictions of the mythos of the discipline (at the center of which is the myth of the Great Debates) and turns to the analysis of international political praxis as an instrument for the identification of the mentioned theoretical impact. At the center of the analysis are the foreign policy principles of the United States, which the author reviews in a hundred‐year time interval, in particular emphasizing the doctrine of Wilsonianism and the principles of foreign policy advocated by the current US President Donald Tramp. Facing Wilsonianism and Trampism (determining, in turn, the latter as a realistic‐constructivist Anti‐Wilsonian coalition), the author offers his view of the current state of paradigmatic 'clashes' in the theory and practice of international relations.Velike debate predstavljaju važnu fazu u razvoju nauke o međunarodnim odnosima. Međutim 'egzaktnost' njihove hronologije i sadržaja i precizno određenje aktera i raspleta, upitno je po više osnova. Stoga se oslanjanjem na brojne, često međusobno kontradiktorne interpretacije ishoda Velikih debata malo toga može reći o trenutnom stanju pomenutog teorijskog dijaloga. Mada se najviše govori o napuštanju ideje makro teorije i pluralističkom zatišju u kome u miru obitavaju teorije srednjeg obima, nema odgovora na pitanje ko je zaista pobedio u okršaju tzv. velikih teorija, odnosno koja teorijska paradigma danas ima najveći uticaj unutar disciplinarnog polja. Vodeći se idejom refleksivnosti teorija međunarodnih odnosa i prakse spoljne politike, autor odbacuje ograničenja mythos‐a discipline (u čijem središtu se nalazi mit o Velikim debatama) i okreće se analizi međunarodnog političkog praxis‐a kao instrumentu identifikacije pomenutog uticaja. U središtu analize nalaze se spoljnopolitički principi SAD, koje autor posmatra u stogodišnjem vremenskom intervalu, posebno akcentujući doktrinu vilsonijanizma i principe spoljne politike koje zagovara aktuelni američki predsednik Donald Tramp. Sučeljavajući vilsonijanizam i trampizam autor nudi svoje viđenje trenutnog stanja paradigmatskog 'okršaja' u teoriji i praksi međunarodnih odnosa
The course of forced migrations and the humanitarian crisis in Europe
No full textThe current number of over sixty million displaced people in the world has largely surpassed the number of fifty million persons who were displaced during and immediately after the Second World War on a global scale. Considering the current trends of forced migrations, one may say that there are few safe and legal routes for the European Union and many of the thousands of migrants and refugees arriving through the Western Balkans route remain trapped outside the EU, without any legal protection or status. The refugees are facing serious impediments in accessing asylum in any of the countries along their route. All along their way, the refugees and migrants are exposed to a constant risk of exploitation, arbitrary detention and abuse. Their travel is often risky and sometimes dangerous and irregular. People take that road out of desperation, fleeing from war and other forms of violence, persecution, discrimination or poverty, in the hope that they will eventually find refuge, safety and security. Travelling in all kinds of weather conditions, sometimes without food and water for days, they face huge challenges. The fatigue, pain and hunger they experience are severely reflected in their physical and mental suffering. The European countries, faced with the current mass arrival of forced migrants from crisis areas around the world, have been caught unprepared by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people seeking a safer and better life for themselves and their families. The government authorities authorized to supervise the borders aim to stop illegal immigrants from crossing and by that they fight also against the organized crime i.e., the organizations engaged in human smuggling and trafficking, as well as the terrorist organizations whose activities have led to serious consequences and shattered the image of Europe as an area of freedom, justice and security. The bodies of the European Union have also been trying to find more efficient solutions to the new situation of humanitarian crisis. The current humanitarian disaster has increasingly been perceived not only as a threat to the systems of social welfare and national culture, but also as a threat to both national and international security
Медији и криминалитет - криминолошки аспект
Get PDFThe relationship between media and crime is a very complex and complicated problem that has not been systematically treated in our literature. It is undisputed that the media have a dominant influence on the shaping attitudes in public opinion on all important social issues, and so on crime as a negative social phenomenon. Most of the stereotypes and misconceptions about certain aspects of the criminal phenomenon are largely the result of the media image of these phenomena. The subject of the dissertation is exploration how media represents criminal phenomenon, assuming that there is exaggeration in coverage of violent crime that can affect the shaping of human behavior in a negative direction. In addition to violent crimes, taking into account the specificity of media coverage in the country, as well as public opinion regarding the problem of crime in general, the subject of the dissertation is also a study of the phenomenon of corruption. Inadequate media reporting on certain aspects of criminal phenomenon may result in the creation of moral panic that is by nature the most relates to the problem of violence, but the study has focused primarily on the moral panic that the media in Serbia, create in connection with certain forms of violent crimes such as domestic violence, pedophilia, rape or bullying of children and young people. The research topic is also the impact of media reporting on the courts in the context of conducting criminal proceedings because they are the most common in media reports. Also, inadequate reporting of a criminal incident can have serious consequences for the outcome of criminal proceedings. Bearing in mind that in work it is problematised three aspects of the media and crime (media construction of crime, media creation of moral panic and relationship between the media and the criminal justice) each are analyzed separately in part of the basic aim of the study which corresponds to the description and understanding of the phenomena. This is done by applying appropriate research procedures, methods, and associated research technique in the case of Serbia.Однос медија и криминалитета представља веома комплексну и сложену проблематику која до сада није систематски обрађивана у нашој литератури. Неспорно је да медији имају доминантан утицај на формирање ставова у јавном мњењу о свим битним друштвеним питањима, па тако и о криминалитету као негативној друштвеној појави. Већина стереотипа и погрешних схватања о појединим аспектима криминалног феномена су добрим делом последица медијске слике о овим појавама. Предмет дисертације је истраживање начина медијског представљања криминалног феномена, уз претпоставку да постоји пренаглашена покривеност насилничког криминалитета која може утицати и на обликовање људског понашања у негативном смеру. Поред насилничког криминалитета, узимајући у обзир специфичност медијског извештавања у нашој земљи, као и став јавног мњења по питању проблема криминалитета уопште, предмет дисертације је и истраживање феномена корупције. Неадекватно медијско извештавање о појединим аспектима криминалног феномена за последицу може да има настанак моралне панике која се по природи ствари највише односи на проблем насиља, па је истраживање усмерено претежно на моралну панику коју медији у Србији стварају у вези с појединим облицима насилничког криминалитета попут насиља у породици, педофилије, силовања или насилничког понашања деце и младих односно тзв. „вршњачког насиља“. Предмет истраживања је и утицај медијског извештавања на судове у контексту вођења кривичних поступака јер су они најзаступљенији у медијским извештајима. Такође, неадекватно извештавање о неком кривичном догађају може имати озбиљне последице по исход кривичног поступка
Faktor gomile u navijačkom nasilju
No full textIn colloquial thought about the character of fan violence, there is an obvious trend of identifying hooligan groups with crowds. Furthermore, we can often hear expressions as hooligan crowd, hooligan mob, wild crowd, etc. Using a long-trodden path traced by Gustave Le Bon at the setting of the 19th century, the authors are trying to make a certain comparison between contemporary fan violence characterized with crowd elements, with the crowd viewed by Le Bon. Starting with the description of identity loss during the crowd formation, creation of the sentiment of invincible power, all that through suggestibility, credulity, and contagious character of the crowd, Le Bon revealed the main characteristics of crowds and their leaders through authoritativeness, intolerance, violence and exaggeration, and inevitable conservatism. Analyzing Le Bon’s viewpoints from this temporal distance, it could easily be concluded that a vast number of his statements have so-called timeless character. Unpretentious wish of the authors was to put Le Bon’s viewpoints in the context of contemporary crowds, especially through a prism of crowd – fan group. Main characteristics of crowds, as Le Bon viewed them, compared with some of the important characteristics of modern fan crowds, have some important similarities. Moreover, if crowd, and even mob (in context of fans) could be differentiated from hooliganism as obviously characteristic form of deviant behaviour, the concurrence with Le Bon’s postulates would be especially visible. Related to that, fan violence as a „disease” of contemporary world characterized by complete lack of matrices (in terms of East-West, rich-poor, black-white, religious divisions, etc.) could partly be explained through important crowd characteristics in a way Le Bon viewed them. Still, the behaviour with serious logistic elements as one of the characteristics of contemporary hooliganism could not be described or called irrational or chaotic. Preparation of pyrotechnics, pre-arranged fights, concealing of rocks and other objects for eventual use against the rival fan groups or persons of different political or sexual orientation, talk about destructive and, at the same time, organized character of hooliganism. Or, like Dragan Koković noticed: „Aggressive action (and hooligan behavior is certainly that sort of action, authors’ note) does not come from some spontaneous, aggressive energy, but is (…) a result of outer stimulation and authority” (Koković, 1990:159)