What kind of safety is possible?

 

In other words, what can we do to formulate a type of safety that will not signify the end of freedom and justice?

 

Firstly, we need to develop a wider and more detailed approach, encompassing the entire process of the production of social insecurity across the planet. This will allow us, on the one hand, to understand the conditions in which conflicts and risks are generated as well as the processes that determine their materialisation into violence and disaster, respectively; and, on the other, it will provide us with a map of the situation in which to devise effective public safety policies.

 

Understanding the dynamics leading to this social insecurity in order to generate sustainable security (i.e. one that is compatible with freedom and justice) requires taking ideas from a wide range of disciplines: political science, economy, sociology and psychology and criminology, to name but a few.

 

It also requires us to look beyond academic and bureaucratic limitations and merge these sources of skills by encouraging interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary thinking, in addition to the development of a common language.

 

Lastly, it requires a fertile compromise between thought and action that, through a combination of action-based thinking and thoughtful action, will enable us to overcome the mechanistic schema of technocratic thinking, which always seeks to provide solutions without first identifying the cause.

Skills

 

The MPS will allow analysts, professionals, civil servants and social and political managers to implement their skills in:

• Understanding the process that produces demands for safety, from an integral perspective, and the public policies for dealing with these demands.

   

• Drafting, managing and evaluating public safety policies.

   

• Drafting, implementing and evaluating public policies for the management of risk and emergencies.

   

• Efficiently developing the responsibilities of actors (institutional or social) in democratic governability of safety.

   

List of topics

Topics

Analysis of public safety policies (15 ECTS)

• Analysis of public policies: actors, resources and policies

   

• Advanced public management

   

• General government: institutions and legal system

   

• Cities in the twenty-first century

   

• Local government

   

• Risk and society: the society of risk and risk governance

   

• Safety: theory and analysis

 

Public safety (15 ECTS - optional)

• Introduction to the analysis and management of public safety

   

• Analysis and management of public (un)safety: public space; coexistence and safety; road safety; safety of women, youths and non-organised social groups, and organised criminality

   

• Criminal justice system: police; administration of justice, and penitentiary system

   

• Theories of criminology and criminal policy

   

• Comparison of safety policies

   

• Prevention strategies: situational; community; social, and integral

 

Risk and emergencies (15 ECTS – optional)

• Introduction to risk analysis and management

   

• Risk analysis and management: environmental; technological, and ICTs

   

• Emergency response system: prevention and extinction of fires; medical emergencies, and rescue services

   

• Comparison of risk and emergency management policies

   

• International crisis response

   

• Emergency management: risk prevention; planning of emergencies, and management of operations

   

• Intervention in emergencies: accidents; urban and forest fires, and disasters

 

Public safety management (15 ECTS)

Governance of risk and safety: public safety problems; public safety actors and institutions, and participation of citizens in safety policies

 

• Public safety leadership: crisis management and change management

   

• Public safety system: public safety; emergency aid; civil protection, and coordination centres

   

• Private safety sector: supply, demand and regulation

   

• Attention for victims of accidents, disasters and crimes

   

• Conflict resolution: analysis of the conflict and strategies and techniques for the transformation of conflicts

   

• Technologies applied to public safety

   

• The mass media and public safety

Price

4.295 euros

Consult the financial aid that the UOC offers to international students by sending a message to queries@uoc.edu

 

The programme fees should be confirmed on enrolment.