"Crisis Management – Lessons Learned and New Challenges"
The International TIEMS Workshop – Croatia 2007, was held from 29th October - 31st October 2007 in Cavtat, Croatia with an Exciting Program.
The Workshop was a great meeting point of the delegates from the whole region of the South-Eastern Europe coming from the various governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in crisis management. About fifty delegates from Slovenia, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Italy, Chech Republic, Norway, Macedonia, Kosovo and Croatia, had an excellent opportunity to discuss particular current topics and aspects of crisis management, trying to share their experience and knowledge, improve their own national systems and redefine some of the crucial approaches in crisis management.
After the opening ceremony and welcome speeches given by the host, Mr. Ranko Britvic, RCADR director, and a significant speech by Mr. K. Harald Drager, TIEMS president, regarding PSC Europe Forum – An Important EU Inititative with Global Public Safety Agenda supported by TIEMS, the lectures followed one another and enabled the active participation of all the present.
The topics of the Workshop included the following issues:
The Workshop was a great meeting point of the delegates from the whole region of the South-Eastern Europe coming from the various governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in crisis management. About fifty delegates from Slovenia, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Italy, Chech Republic, Norway, Macedonia, Kosovo and Croatia, had an excellent opportunity to discuss particular current topics and aspects of crisis management, trying to share their experience and knowledge, improve their own national systems and redefine some of the crucial approaches in crisis management.
After the opening ceremony and welcome speeches given by the host, Mr. Ranko Britvic, RCADR director, and a significant speech by Mr. K. Harald Drager, TIEMS president, regarding PSC Europe Forum – An Important EU Inititative with Global Public Safety Agenda supported by TIEMS, the lectures followed one another and enabled the active participation of all the present.
The topics of the Workshop included the following issues:
- National Crisis Management systems: particularities, experiences, improvements, coordination
- South-east Europe – preparedness to crisis situations
- Decision-making process in rapidly emerging crisis
- Coordination in crisis situations of international proportions
- Operative forces and their organizatios
- Critical infrastructures
- Environmental disasters and crisis management
- Water resources management as a cause of crisis
- Climate changes
- Crisis management in cases of chemical-biological-technological accidents
- Humanitarian crises
- Terrorism and security
- De-mining
- Health emergencies and response
- Risk diminution – „good practices“
- The role of press & mass media in crisis situations
- Crisis management in cyberspace
- ICT – Information and Communication Technologies
- Assessment techniques for risk analysis
- Prevention, training and education
- Psychological and social approach in crisis situations
- Case studies and lessons learned
During the Workshop, course of the delegates underlined the necessity of the permanent regional cooperation and existance of the sustainable international coordination when/if a situation of crisis eventually appear. Also, they concluded that is necessary to establish a strong and vivid regional network including the organizations, institutions, operative forces and professionals of the crisis management.
Ranko and Stiven leads the singing and dancing