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Comprehensive forensic examination with Belkasoft evidence center
Get PDFThe enhancement and proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) has tackled every aspect of human activity: work, leisure, sport, communication, medicine, etc. All around us we can see mobile phones and other connected devices that are now ubiquitous, changing trends in consumer behaviour. Therefore, there is no surprise in fact that such technologies can play a significant role in committing or assisting a crime, since data held on digital devices can give a detailed insight into people’s lives, communications, contacts, friends, family and acquaintances. In order to help law enforcement investigation of such crimes, digital forensic is performed with the aim of collecting crime-related evidence from various digital media and analyse it. Investigators use various forensic techniques to search hidden folders, retrieve deleted data, decrypt the data or restore damaged files, etc. Obtaining evidence such as location data, photos, messages or internet searches can be beneficial, if not crucial, in assisting the police with criminal investigations. Since advances in technologies have led to an increase in the volume, variety, velocity, and veracity of data available for digital forensic analysis, without efficient techniques and tools such investigation would require a tremendous amount of effort and time. That is the reason for expansion in the market of digital forensic tools, both proprietary and free for use, that are available today. In this paper an insight of digital forensic process is given, emphasizing the role of digital forensic tools in providing digital evidence. The possibility of one particular tool, Belkasoft Evidence Center – BEC, in acquisition and analysis of digital evidence was briefly described
Borba protiv terorizma i nasilnog ekstremizma na Zapadnom Balkanu: perspektiva Sjedinjenih Američkih Država
No full textSecurity Studies in Serbian Higher Education System
No full textAcademic programs of security studies in former Yugoslavia were organized within the Faculty of People’s Defence in Belgrade and Faculty of Security in Skopje, as well as at colleges of professional police studies in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana, all of them stateowned and aimed at schooling professionals in the national security sector. Following the Yugoslav dissolution, Western Balkan countries have continued development of their own higher education system synchronized with their European integration orientations. The cornerstones of European Union accession process in the area of higher education are mechanisms based on the Bologna Declaration, later institutionalized through the European Higher Education Area, which all the Western Balkan countries adopted and modified their higher education systems accordingly. The appearance of private higher education institutions was one of the first steps in the overall national reforms of these systems, where the Republic of Serbia is amongst regional countries with the biggest number of private universities, faculties, and colleges, especially in the social sciences and humanities. At the same time, the national security sectors went through the process of decentralization and privatization. These external and internal factors, combined with the global rise of importance of securityrelated phenomena, especially after the 9/11 events, brought the security studies in these countries in focus of interest of the existing and rising higher education institutions. Conflict heritage, the existing local security threats like extremism and terrorism, and a vast number of experienced national security officers with university titles, led to the appearance of various academic programs on terrorism, national security, national defence, and private security studies both on the existing state-owned and private universities and faculties. At the moment, the Republic of Serbia offers several dozens of higher education programs in security, on all the existing study cycles, within three different types of studies, and both for academic and professional levels. The paper will provide an overview of the existing higher education programs in the field of security and analyze the main discourses, directions and possible perspectives
Public Risk Perspectives Regarding the Threat of Terrorism in Belgrade: Implications for Risk Management Decision-Making for Individuals, Communities and Public Authorities
No full textThe aim of this paper is to assess the risk of terrorist attacks as perceived by individuals, the local community as a whole, and municipal public safety officials in Belgrade, the capital of the Republic of Serbia. The structured questionnaire about perceived risk of terrorist attacks and preparedness was developed using close-ended, multiple choice questions and questionnaire items featuring 5-point Likert response options. Data were collected between June and September 2017 by a telephone survey using a random digit dialing procedure; 485 adult Serbian residents participated in the research voluntarily. Study participants exhibited low levels of perception vis-a-vis the future likelihood of terrorist attacks occurring in their communities, and only a moderate knowledge of counter-terrorism activities currently being undertaken by public safety authorities. Other responses to our questionnaire indicated statistically significant differences in perception of the risks of terrorism threats in Belgrade with respect to demographic variables such as age, gender, employment and past exposure to major emergencies. We encourage emergency management agencies in Serbia to use the differences in public perception of risks identified in our study to develop enhanced counter-terrorism preparedness measures through the promotion of behavioural change. Such action goes hand-in-hand with the adoption of improved risk management decision-making procedures. Furthermore, to improve risk management decision-making we need to anticipate virtually all possible scenarios because terrorism is now a clear and present danger to the safety of the citizens of Serbia. All cities and towns in Serbia need to have up-to-date disaster plans that are tailored to specific scenarios and locations as opposed to only preconceived generalized plans
The Role of Gender in Preparedness and Response Behaviors towards Flood Risk in Serbia
Get PDFAdverse outcomes from 2014 flooding in Serbia indicated problematic response phase management accentuated by a gender imbalance. For this reason, we investigated the risk perceptions and preparedness of women and men regarding these types of events in Serbia. Face-to-face interviews, administered to 2500 participants, were conducted across 19 of 191 municipalities. In light of the current findings, men seemed to be more confident in their abilities to cope with flooding, perceiving greater individual and household preparedness. By contrast, women displayed a deeper understanding of these events. Perhaps owing to a deeper level of understanding, women demonstrated more household-caring attitudes and behaviors and were more prone to report a willingness to help flood victims at reception centers. Emergency management agencies and land planners should account for these differences in gender awareness and preparedness. Based on these findings, doing so may increase citizen participation and shared responsibility under flood hazard scenarios
Policing hate crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
No full textStudying hate crimes in a country divided along sectarian lines, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, presents a substantial challenge for researchers. The consequences of hate crimes are multifaceted, and in an environment of institutional crime-control mechanisms that are still developing, these events can negatively affect society at large. Hate crimes often lead to ethnic and religious homogenisation, polarisation, intolerance, overt hatred and violence. This paper provides an overview of research findings relevant to policing hate crimes in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. Special focus is placed on policing at three levels: government policy (strategies for action at the level of the interior ministries), police policy (the implementation of action strategies in lower organisational units) and police practice (police fieldwork). The study is primarily based on a qualitative approach including interviews, observations and secondary data analyses. The general findings indicate that crime control is inadequate and influenced by an apparent lack of political will to tackle the problem. Our findings also revealed the absence of any systematic approach to deal with hate crimes, which implied numerous problems in policing at all levels. Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a transitional post-conflict country, has a long way ahead in establishing law enforcement institutions that will enable the rule of law, protect human rights and ensure political accountability
In search of the principles of resilient urban design: Implementability of the principles in the case of the cities in Serbia
Get PDFThe concept of resilience is probably one of the best-known new international concepts, which have gained attention since the economic crisis in 2008. Since then, this global challenge has redirected general focus at all tiers from "faith" in unstoppable progress to more desirable stabilisation and preparedness. Being the major places of globalism, cities across the World have suffered from the crisis. Therefore, they have profoundly embraced the postulates of resilience, transforming them with "urban" footprint urban resilience. The creation of this significant concept has been in the agenda of many international organisations. However, the concept of urban resilience is still a novelty, with accompanying implementation problems. This is a very important issue in the field of urban design, a part of urbanism very much connected to concrete functioning in situ. This "implementability" of the concept of resilience in urban design is an important issue for Serbia. As a post-socialist country, it has witnessed various problems and general inconsistency. With a strong motive to cope with them, local authorities and institutions often try to directly implement foreign arisen concepts and knowledge, without any local adaptation. The results of these forceful acts are usually questionable. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to understand how the principles of resilient urban design are tailored and how they are important for Serbian cities. Hence, general urban plans as the main development documents in Serbian cities are researched through the lenses of these principles, with expectations to check if they are ready to make urban design in relevant cities more resistant. The final contribution of the paper is foreseen in the form of guidelines to enforce urban resilience at local level.This is the peer-reviewed version of the following article: Lazarević, Eva Vanista, Keković, Zoran, Antonić, Branislav, "In search of the principles of resilient urban design: Implementability of the principles in the case of the cities in Serbia" in Energy and Buildings, 158 (2018):1130-1138,
[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.11.005
Односи Републике Турске и Сједињених Америчких Држава током деценије владавине Партије правде и развоја
Get PDFIn western political and academic circles, the prevailing opinion is that current overturns of Turkish and US foreign policies are indicating Turkey's distance from the West, which came after the Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) won power in 2002. The view of Turkey as a state that is increasingly distancing itself from the secular heritage of Kemal Ataturk in its foreign and internal politics, is dominant in the Serbian scientific community as well. In this doctoral dissertation, the author intends to approach this problem from a holistic perspective, and in that way to offer a more thorough and comprehensive interpretation of contemporary Turkish-American relations, which is not based solely on the analysis of political ideology and foreign policy of the ruling AKP, but also takes into account long term structural factors which greatly influence on choice and scope of Turkish foreign policy. In the dissertation, the author will give an answer to the question of why the relations between Turkey and the United States have been reduced after the AKP has come to power. Accordingly, the dissertation will provide answers to other "related" questions. First of all, what role has Washington imposed to Turkey in the post Cold War international order? Then, how does Ankara look at that role today? After all, the author gives his own interpretation of the potential re-Islamization of Turkish society, as well as the answer to the question of the impact of this phenomenon on the Turkey's "alienation" from the United States. The main thesis advocated by the author is that the cooling of Turkish-American relations can be explained more by pragmatic arguments, and less in a way by arguments of values. The basic assumption of the dissertation is that the cause of the cooling is located in the hierarchical essence of the bilateral relationship between the two countries mentioned above (in which Turkey is a security subordinated to the United States), and that their alleged divergence of identity should be viewed as a consequence of the change of that relationship.У западним политичким и академским круговима преовлађује мишљење да су актуелна мимоилажења турске и америчке спољне политике показатељ дистанцирања Турске од Запада до кога је дошло након што је исламистичка Партија правде и развоја (АКП) освојила власт 2002. године. Виђење Турске као државе која се, у својој спољној и унутрашњој политици, све више удаљава од секуларног наслеђа Кемала Ататурка доминантно је и у српској научној заједници. У докторској дисертацији аутор настоји да овом проблему приступи из холистичке перспективе, и да на тај начин понуди темељније и свеобухватније тумачење савремених турско-америчких односа, које не почива искључиво на анализи политичке идеологије и спољнополитичке доктрине владајуће АКП, већ у обзир узима и дугорочне структурне факторе који у великој мери утичу на избор и домете турске спољне политике. Аутор ће у дисертацији дати одговор на питање зашто је дошло до захлађења односа између Турске и САД после доласка АКП-а на власт? У складу са тиме у дисертацији ће бити понуђени одговори и на друга „сродна“ питања. Пре свега, какву је улогу Турској у постхладноратовским међународном поретку наменио Вашингтон? Потом, како на ту улогу данас гледа Анкара? Напослетку, аутор даје своје тумачење потенцијалне реисламизације турског друштва, као и одговор на питање о утицају овог феномена на „удаљавање” од Сједињених Америчких Држава. Главна теза коју аутор заговара је да се захлађење турско-америчких односа може објаснити више прагматичним, а мање вредносним аргументима. Основна претпоставка дисертације је да се узрок захлађења налази у хијерархијској суштини билатералног односа између две поменуте државе (у коме је Турска безбедносно подређена САД), а да наводно идентитетско удаљавање треба посматрати као последицу промена тог односа
