Changes in security environment after the end of Cold War have seriously affected our security concepts and paradigms. Human security was finally conceptualized and presented to the global public in a Human Development Report in 1994. The concept has evolved since then and, today, we have embarked upon a serious conceptual and practical debate on the relationship between security and human rights and freedoms. The goal of this paper is to show the complex relationship between the concept of security and human rightsand briefly introduce the empirical debate on this relationship in the field of civil aviation
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 31838813The aim of the paper is to analyse the overall opinion of the Slovenian servicemen and servicewomen deployed to ISAF regarding certain factors, such as motivation for participating in the operation, various professional and personal problems occurring during their deployment, etc. ISAF is a specific case for Slovenian Armed Forces, since it is the only operation where its members face asymmetric threats, which consequently requires specific approaches. For the analysis, 50 interviews with members of Slovenian Armed Forces were conducted (all of them within the army, since Slovenia does not have other services, e.g. navy or air force). The interviewees have mostly been deployed to more than one operation; that importantly influences their motivation, which, together with the members’ expectations, is diminishing as the number of missions attended increase. The results show that gaining the experiences of working under stress in the combat environment is one of the most valuable lessons learned during the deployment to ISAF. Furthermore, following problems have been emphasized: 1) discrepancy between the operational rules of engagement and the national rules and caveats; 2) standardization of the procedures on the tactical level; 3) cross-national communication gap due to the poor knowledge of lingua franca within armed forces of certain nations; 4) a personal contact with enormous poverty among Afghanistan people; 5) and after return also the issue of reintegration in the family’s daily routine as well as the alienation between partners.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 31413597Teorija in praksa is the oldest social sciences journal in Slovenia. Since its establishment, the journal has been the basic professional publication for the following areas: political sciences, sociology, journalism, later also communication studies and defence studies. the articles in the journal Teorija in praksa analyze different scientific and actual social questions. The editorial board pays special attention to the development of Slovenian social science terminology, esp. from those social sciences which were introduced at the University of Ljubljana in the second half of 20th century. Teorija in praksa is important teaching source for the students of social sciences and humanistics, since it regularly publish new research findings. Besides that, the journal is scientific forum for well-known scholars from the field of social sciences and humanistics. From year 2012, the articles in the journal Teorija in praksa are indexed in the Scopus database.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine