Emergency: A contribution toward conceptual determination of security

Abstract

On the beginning of the paper, the authors explain the changes in international security and international relations. Security issues are no more related only to the traditional thinking of security, so that the new term emergency emerges. In the section on etymology and defining of emergency, different opinions on these issues are confronted: Russian British, American, German, etc. There is no unique decision on whether such phenomenon should be named emergency, state of emergency, special security situation, public danger, etc. Emergency is an occurrence or phenomenon that endangers and radically changes the way of living and the life conditions of citizens and seriously disturbs animal and plant world of a certain territory, aquatory or air space, which requires (emergent) human and material potentials for returning to the previous, regular state (economic political, ecologic, etc). Terms similar to emergency are: accident technological emergency, danger in case of emergency, danger, crisis average, etc. The authors have sorted and enumerated all of these terms. Some of these terms have already been determined, and some not. Finally, in the last section of the paper, terms security challenges, risks and threats are determined as gradation of phenomena leading to emergency. In that way, the term emergency relates to the modern concept of security. Emergency is, in authors' opinion, the core and the cornerstone of science and security concept.

Autori u ovom radu polaze od činjenice da prirodne i tehničko-tehnološke nesreće dovode do velikih neprilika i utiču na normalno funkcionisanje života ljudi. Definisanje pojma vanredna situacija i njemu srodnih pojmova dovodi do boljeg razumevanja bezbednosti uopšte. Takođe, shvatanjem pojmova izazova rizika i pretnji, kao izvora i utoke svih bezbednosnih problema, postavljaju se jasni temelji za izučavanje bezbednosti. Na kraju, autori ističu da se promenom zamisli i koncepta bezbednosti, menja i koncept bezbednosti u vanrednim situacijama.