The process of attaining the independence of Slovenia was based upon the plebiscitary determination of the Slovenian citizens to establish an autonomous and independent state. Civil defence performed successfully in this process and it was fully complementary to military defence. It allowed the authorities to function in a legal and continuous manner, enabled a more or less stable supply of defence forces and the population, and made it possible for the "will to resist" to be strengthened among the citizens during the war. The non-violent resistance of the civil society and political institutions against the federal forces contributed significantly to the attainment of the Slovenian independence. The rescue and protection system ensured the notification, evacuation and protection of the civilian population as well as the detection and designation of dangerous zones.
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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
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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
In spite of relatively short period of existence, the Manoeuvre Structures of National Protection (MSNP) presents very complex topics demanding multidisciplinary and multilevel approach. Firstly, from aiming and functionality points of view, their origins goes back to (self)defence activities, following Yugoslav People’s Army attempt for disarming Slovenian Territorial Defence in May 1990. Secondly, although National protection was an existing but antiquated institution, (unique to Slovenia), intended to enable the republic to form an ad hoc defence structure, akin to a Home Guard, it was a cover for secret alternative command structure and a way how new elected republic leadership tried to control TD which was formally a part of joint Yugoslav armed forces. And thirdly, MSNP presents conceptualisation of unique Slovenian defence forces, composed military (Territorial defence) and militia/police units. The article presents all hazards analysis from strategic concept till tactical realisation, combining history, politology, sociology and security theories.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31802973
Article tries to answer the question of whether Protection Unit members were regime defenders or patriots, or whether they were both regime defenders and patriots. The answer to this question must be sought in three periods of Slovenian history in which the Protection Unit performed its task of protecting the highest military-political leadership: interwar period (during the Second World War), post-war period and during the Slovenia's fight for independence, during which the studied unit has performed its basic functions. A structured research is necessary due to changing circumstances in which the unit was operating. During the war, unit protected the military-political leadership in exceptional circumstances, where combat tasks were not dominated. After the Second World War and during the Cold War, unit’s tasks were the protection of the republican socio-political leadership to avoid discontinuity in the case of an external military intervention, while the tasks during the fight for independence of the Republic of Slovenia ere modified – beside the protection of the political leadership of the Slovenian state, unit was also intended for protection of the most important strategic and key national facilities of the country. Unit became part of the defensive structures of the new country and defence pillar of its autonomy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1227909