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Outline of a New Interdisciplinary Model for Research Intangible and Tangible Security

NCJ Number
238677
Journal
Internal Security Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Dated: January - June 2012 Pages: 79-90
Author(s)
Wlodzimierz Chojnacki
Date Published
2011
Length
12 pages
Annotation
The author of this study exposed the need of conducting sociological and interdisciplinary studies on identity of security in theoretic and practical perspectives.
Abstract
Efforts of the democratic societies oriented toward security are the essential protection from terrorist attacks, crises, disasters and calamities as well as from the various forms of technological destructions. In the above presented considerations author exposed the need of conducting sociological and interdisciplinary studies on identity of security in theoretic and practical perspectives. The theoretic perspective includes building interdisciplinary study teams of international and national character. But the practical perspective includes collecting and implementing practitioners` experiences and building the science and research centers. Their main objective would be to analyze and verify different models elaborated by various teams of theoreticians. In this context, good example is to set up an international group of Wise Men for elaborating a new strategic concept of NATO led by Madeleine Albright, the former U.S. Defense Secretary. Showed considerations clearly indicate that the synergic effects of studies and undertaken actions in the area of security mostly depend on the potential existed in the knowledge and experience possessed by experts engaged in solving problems and tasks oriented toward maintaining and elevating the level of security. In practice they are not only connected with the strategy of security but also with the awareness of threats functioning among the scientists and practitioners. (Published Abstract)