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The Catholic Church is a global and universal (unified) formation, which has adapted itself to the needs and expectations of the regions in a flexible way. Similarly to other great religious institutions, it also participates in changes of the late modernity period. The faithful were also participated in these changes, in both secular and religious aspects of their lives.

In its introduction, the paper defines the meanings of the words 'safety' and 'police'. Then it deals with different police organisations, their organisational structure and different police models of operation with the emphasis on studying the latest approach to the police work called community policing that is being introduced also in the Slovene police lately. Since the central topic here is local community safety, the paper deals with the community at which police work must be targeted. Then follows a study and analysis overview regarding the population's readiness to co-operate with the police. The empirical part of the paper presents an opinion survey among the Podravje Region population to find out to what extent people trust the police, how they are satisfied with the police work, what is the discrepancy between estimation and the expectations the Podravje population has for police officers, and how safe they feel. The survey shows the following: the Podravje population feels safe, people trust the police and they are ready to co-operate in solving safety problems. It has been ascertained that police officers fulfil people's expectations, because in dealing with people, the police were better than expected.

KEY WORDS: • safety • police • public • local community • joint creation of safety

This article critically examines claims that "local community" and "local/traditional knowledge" are vital contributions to safeguarding socio-economic stability and securing sustainable resource uses in times of stress. The empirical focus is on Central Vietnam, but the argument is relevant in a broader context. The article specifically questions approaches to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation that see "local community knowledge" as a vital means to achieving resilience in socio-ecological systems. We argue that rural villages in Central Vietnam are characterised by highly dynamic local actors who eagerly exploit new income opportunities arising both from internal and external sources. Although a wide range of knowledge is available about how to cope with adverse climate and environmental conditions, this knowledge is hardly "resilience" and "equilibrium" oriented. Rather, it is found to be anthropocentric, externally oriented, sometimes opportunistic, and ultimately oriented towards an urban lifestyle—traits that are strongly rewarded by the Vietnamese state. We conclude that, at present, local aspirations may not necessarily be part of the solution, but may form part of a social and political complex that exacerbates risk, particularly for weaker population segments. Instead, new and non-state actors should play a larger role.

Despite international mobilization for greater humanitarian mine action and despite considerable clearance achievements, the majority of mine‐affected communities have not yet been involved in formal clearance activities. They adapt to the contamination largely by local means. The differing degree to which local adaptation is successful is now better understood as a result of the Global Landmine Survey, a multi‐country survey project launched in the wake of the 1997 Ottawa treaty to ban anti‐personnel mines. Socio‐economic impact surveys have since been completed in several countries. In addition to landmines, the Global Landmine Survey records impacts also from unexploded ordnance (UXO). The ability to avoid mine incidents is used to measure adaptation success. We use a variant of Poisson regression models in order to identify community and contamination correlates of the number of recent landmine victims. We estimate separate models using data from the Yemen, Chad and Thailand surveys. We interpret them in a common framework that includes variables from three domains: Pressure on resources, intensity of past conflict and communities' institutional endowments. Statistically significant associations occur in all three domains and in all the three countries studied. Physical correlates are the most strongly associated, pointing to a lasting deadly legacy of violent conflict, but also significant learning effects over time are present. Despite different measurements of institutional endowments, in each country one factor signifying greater local development is correlated with reductions in victims, whereas factors commonly associated with the presence of government officials do not contribute to local capacity to diminish the landmine problem. Strong spatial effects are manifest in clusters of communities with recent victims. Two policy consequences emerge. Firstly, given humanitarian funding limits, trade‐offs between clearing contaminated land and creating alternative employment away from that land need to be studied more deeply; the Global Landmine Survey will need to reach out to other bodies of knowledge in development. Secondly, communities with similar contamination types and levels often form local clusters that are smaller than the administrative districts of the government and encourage tailored planning approaches for mine action. These call for novel coalitions that bring advocacy and grassroots NGOs together with local governments, agricultural and forestry departments and professional mine clearance and awareness education agencies.

The corporation & the local community represent sometimes conflicting ends for members of the corporate hierarchy. There is a citizenship of the corporation & a citizenship of the local territorial community that may & do conflict. The corporation offices constitute many of the top status positions in the local community; the behavior of corporate managers influences that of many others. Where corporate managers are more loyal to the corporation than to the local community, the natives, the local citizens, are as likely to resent this as exploitation as are the people of a banana republic to resent the alien rule of the fruit company. Yet corporate managers are supposed to be primarily businessmen running a business on a competitive basis. If they forget this & run a welfare org, the business & the economy suffer. The conflict between immobile territorial loyalties & the need for the mobile recombination of the factors of production is built into the situation. Corporate managers cannot excape involvement in local pol, for they have power. They must, in a sense, be alien if they are true to the interests of the corporation &I indeed, to the larger economy. But, if they are visibly alien as irresponsible holders of power over local lives, they must be hateful to the natives. The dilemma is real, & no public-relations wand will wave it away. AA.