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(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security: the COVID-19 pandemic and the private security sector Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
While the role of the public police in the law enforcement-public health (LEPH) nexus has received increased attention in recent years, much less is known about the involvement of private security actors in this field. However, understanding the new and shifting roles of private security companies in LEPH is vitally important. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the security industry witnessed increased demands for health-care related services ...
Urban governance of security through bubbles of security?: case-study Ghent central railway station Ghent University
Urban redevelopment is no longer a matter of governments alone. Development projects are increasingly operated through a partnership of government and private organizations. Given this context we wonder whether urban governance of security in Belgium goes hand in hand with the development of ‘bubbles of security’? In this case-study we make use of the project of the rail station ‘Ghent Sint-Pieters’. Our analysis takes into account the ...
Between place and territory: Young people's emotional geographies of security and insecurity in Brussels' deprived areas Vrije Universiteit Brussel
While much of literature on place attachment describes it as an affective bond between a (young) person and place, with positive psychosocial consequences such as identification, rootedness and belonging, some authors are cautious and stress that an enhanced attachment to place, termed “territoriality”, may have negative consequences such as hostility towards outsiders and a sense of non-belonging elsewhere. In this paper, I ask how we should ...
Securing the Interaction of Software Modules across Security Boundaries KU Leuven
In the current software development culture, software modules from different parties need to work together in a single application. While this culture allows for reuse of components, using third-party software modules adds security risks. A single malicious or buggy module can compromise the whole system, and thus compromise the security of all other modules. In this thesis we investigate how we can better secure the interactions between ...
Islands of stability or swamps of insecurity? MONUSCO’s intervention brigade and the danger of emerging security voids in eastern Congo Ghent University
2013 might enter into history as a turning point for both United Nations (UN) peacekeeping and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) two decades of armed conflicts. Bothaccustomed to negative reporting and daunting outlooks, they are similarly affected by a paradigm shift in international intervention that finds its precedent in MONUSCO, the Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation du Congo.