Security Index
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Mojanoski T., Cane
GJurovski, Marjan
Abstract
This research is a product of the established cooperation
between the Faculty of Security Studies, Skopje and the
Macedonia Office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
To compile a Security Index was a challenge for the team
of authors to devise a comprehensive tool that comprises
a significant number of indicators which can encourage to
draw conclusions, do define policies, or to undertake specific
actions in the sphere of security. The index is designed as an
extra tool for creating security policies, for early warning and
for initiating organized and, if allowed or required, joint and
coordinated actions of the responsible institutions to eliminate
challenges, risks or security threats.
Drafting the Security Index, in the preliminary phase,
revealed quite some issues and dilemmas. By and large, they
can be grouped as follows:
а) questions related to theoretical and conceptual
differences in the perception of security and difficulties
in determining the concept, structure and framework of
the term;
б) issues related to the methodological approach, especially
regarding analytical and research procedures that
influence the objectivity and determine the content of
the Index;
в) data choices, their openness, availability, reliability and
usability.
That is why the team defined the following goals:
а) to carry out pilot research that will offer a possible
approach and response to the question of defining the
term security;
б) to provide an indicator framework, based on which
data will be collected using quantitative and qualitative
research design, and
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в) to encourage activities to improve material resources
and staff capacity, that is, to create an optimal time
frame for permanently updating the index by improving
the organizational (by including other experts and
researchers) and material basis (by encouraging and
organizing publicly available data bases, procuring
software and training staff).
The content of this edition is an initial product and
preliminary concept, offering certain knowledge and revealing
some questions and dilemmas, not only due to the space,
but also to the time available to the team. We expect that by
the end of 2018, after completion of the second preliminary
phase, when qualitative instruments for collecting data will be
applied, the research topic, the indicator framework and the
structure of the Index will be more clearly and comprehensively
defined.
The research team expects to receive comments,
assessments and ideas for compiling the Security Index,
which it will treat with special attention. We will try to extract
the optimal solutions for creating a research tool to measure
the level of security in the Republic of Macedonia, which will
serve for initiating complex security activities that involve the
identification, prevention and resolution of security problems,
and for providing assumptions for the comparison and ranking
of the security institutions, as well as between different states.
The Security Index is hence a tool for synthesizing the
complex phenomenon of security, the debate on which we
hope to make a small contribution to.
Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to
Mr. Johannes Rey, Head of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung`s
Macedonia Office, and to his associates for their continuing
support. We would also like to thank the Dean‘s Administration
Security Index 13
at the Faculty of Security Studies, Skopje, and the reviewers,
Prof. Dr. Tome Batkovski from the Faculty of Security Studies–,
and Prof. Dr. Nedžad Korajlić from the Faculty of Criminal
Justice, Criminology and Security Studies at the University of
Sarajevo.
between the Faculty of Security Studies, Skopje and the
Macedonia Office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
To compile a Security Index was a challenge for the team
of authors to devise a comprehensive tool that comprises
a significant number of indicators which can encourage to
draw conclusions, do define policies, or to undertake specific
actions in the sphere of security. The index is designed as an
extra tool for creating security policies, for early warning and
for initiating organized and, if allowed or required, joint and
coordinated actions of the responsible institutions to eliminate
challenges, risks or security threats.
Drafting the Security Index, in the preliminary phase,
revealed quite some issues and dilemmas. By and large, they
can be grouped as follows:
а) questions related to theoretical and conceptual
differences in the perception of security and difficulties
in determining the concept, structure and framework of
the term;
б) issues related to the methodological approach, especially
regarding analytical and research procedures that
influence the objectivity and determine the content of
the Index;
в) data choices, their openness, availability, reliability and
usability.
That is why the team defined the following goals:
а) to carry out pilot research that will offer a possible
approach and response to the question of defining the
term security;
б) to provide an indicator framework, based on which
data will be collected using quantitative and qualitative
research design, and
12
в) to encourage activities to improve material resources
and staff capacity, that is, to create an optimal time
frame for permanently updating the index by improving
the organizational (by including other experts and
researchers) and material basis (by encouraging and
organizing publicly available data bases, procuring
software and training staff).
The content of this edition is an initial product and
preliminary concept, offering certain knowledge and revealing
some questions and dilemmas, not only due to the space,
but also to the time available to the team. We expect that by
the end of 2018, after completion of the second preliminary
phase, when qualitative instruments for collecting data will be
applied, the research topic, the indicator framework and the
structure of the Index will be more clearly and comprehensively
defined.
The research team expects to receive comments,
assessments and ideas for compiling the Security Index,
which it will treat with special attention. We will try to extract
the optimal solutions for creating a research tool to measure
the level of security in the Republic of Macedonia, which will
serve for initiating complex security activities that involve the
identification, prevention and resolution of security problems,
and for providing assumptions for the comparison and ranking
of the security institutions, as well as between different states.
The Security Index is hence a tool for synthesizing the
complex phenomenon of security, the debate on which we
hope to make a small contribution to.
Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to
Mr. Johannes Rey, Head of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung`s
Macedonia Office, and to his associates for their continuing
support. We would also like to thank the Dean‘s Administration
Security Index 13
at the Faculty of Security Studies, Skopje, and the reviewers,
Prof. Dr. Tome Batkovski from the Faculty of Security Studies–,
and Prof. Dr. Nedžad Korajlić from the Faculty of Criminal
Justice, Criminology and Security Studies at the University of
Sarajevo.
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