Risk: Specific form of posing a danger to security

Abstract

In everyday life, the terms such as challenge, risk and threat are often used, primarily to warn of an existing or potential danger posed to safety of people, objects, assets, and other values. In the security theory and practice such meaning is represented by syntagmatic notions - challenges, risks and threats to security, or security challenges, risks and threats. Resolving any security issue is associated with decision process (decision making and execution), and any decision process involves an exposure to a certain amount of danger (risk). The paper discusses significant aspects of security risk, and points to its universality as regards posing a danger to security. Bringing the two parties' (the security subject and the danger subject) decisions face to face is problematized in relation to the security object (values being protected), as regards the risk scope, character, and specific features of both parties in conflict.

U svakodnevnom životu često se upotrebljavaju izrazi izazov, rizik i pretnja, prvenstveno da upozore na postojeću ili moguću opasnost za bezbednost ljudi, predmeta, sredstava i drugih vrednosti. U teoriji i praksi bezbednosti takvo značenje predstavljaju sintagmatski pojmovi - izazovi, rizici i pretnje bezbednosti ili bezbednosni izazovi, rizici i pretnje. Rešavanje bilo kakvog bezbednosnog problema u vezi je sa odlučivanjem (donošenje i realizacija odluka), a svako odlučivanje podrazumeva izlaganje određenom stepenu opasnosti (rizik). U radu su razmotreni bitni aspekti bezbednosnog rizika, pri tome, ukazano je na njegovu univerzalnost u pogledu ugrožavanja bezbednosti. Problematizovana je sučeljenost odluka dveju strana (subjekt bezbednosti i subjekt opasnosti) u odnosu na objekt bezbednosti (vrednosti koje se štite), s obzirom na obim, karakter i specifičnosti rizika obeju strana u konfliktu.