Crisis Management in Serbia - In the Search for the Optimal Model

Crises are inevitable as tax or death even in today's Hi-Tech world. The increase in human knowledge and technological power was accompanied by the emergence of new risks and threats. We live in a "risk society" and states are necessarily prepared to deal with different kinds of crises and disasters. Fit-for-all crisis management models do not exist, but it is possible to learn from best practices. After abandoning the socialist project in 1990s, Serbia dismantled old and did not built a new system for dealing with crises and disasters until the end of 2009. It withstood the test of time but in the last period showed a number of lacks and gaps that need to be overcome in the next step.

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elimir Ke etovi PhD at Faculty of Political Sciences University of Belgrade. Professor of Crisis management at Faculty of Security Studies. Participated in number of conferences in Serbia and abroad. Author of more than 150 papers in domestic and foreign journals and seven books. Participated in FP7 Project ANVIL.

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Crises are inevitable as tax or death even in today's Hi-Tech world. The increase in human knowledge and technological power was accompanied by the emergence of new risks and threats. We live in a "risk society" and states are necessarily prepared to deal with different kinds of crises and disasters. Fit-for-all crisis management models do not exist, but it is possible to learn from best practices. After abandoning the socialist project in 1990s, Serbia dismantled old and did not built a new system for dealing with crises and disasters until the end of 2009. It withstood the test of time but in the last period showed a number of lacks and gaps that need to be overcome in the next step.