TERRITORIAL VULNERABILITY IN SAFETY AND SECURITY

This contribution mainly refers to the safety and security vulnerabilities of a territory during and after a period of crisis, social development, state building, economic recovery and political changes. The challenges to be faced are not the single threats that security forces used to cope with, but their combination, and overlapping. The territory itself has lost most of its geographical meaning and is transformed in 'environment', implying the need to include the criminal threat against our living space and resources among the social, political and economic threats to safety and security. Such a combination of threats requires a new international cooperation and a better integration of military and non-military security resources.