Security threats to the Olympic Games
Μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία
Συγγραφέας
Lechner, Felix
Ημερομηνία
2014-12Επιβλέπων
Toohey, Kristine-MargaretΘεματική επικεφαλίδα
Olympic games - Security ; Ολυμπιακά αθλήματα - ΑσφάλειαΛέξεις κλειδιά
Olympic events ; Security ; Olympic movement ; Olympic values ; Ολυμπιακά γεγονότα ; Ασφάλεια ; Ολυμπιακό κίνημα ; Ολυμπιακές αξίεςΠερίληψη
Security at international mega events like the Olympic Games is an up to date topic in
the media. For this reason this thesis looks at security threats at Olympic Events. The
introductory literature research shows that not much research has been done on the topic
in the last millennium. Only recently the interest of scholars in the topic rose rapidly,
especially also after events like 9/11. Most of the publications are also made in direct
context to specific Games and events, only little about security at the Olympics or at
mega events in general.
This work is first defining security threats to Olympic Games to than do a historical
literature review and a review on potential risks developed in context of similar events
with a hermeneutic approach. By this an overview on security threats to Olympic
Games in past and present and a non-exhaustive overview on potential security threats
to events in future is presented.
After this four groups, the Games Family, the Organising Committee, Spectators and
Host City / Country, are developed to describe the potential threatened parties. Possible
threats are than grouped by their origin in security threats by constructions and
environment, security threat emerging out of situations and intentional created security
threats. In a last step of analysis possible causes for the formation of security threats
within the three groups are described.
The paper concludes that Olympic Games have a high potential for security threats, also
due to the nature of the Olympic Movement. But also in other events security is a key
part of planning and implementing events. This paper is just a scratch on the surface of
security as the whole topic is very complex.
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