New Approaches for Maintaining the Peace on Political Demonstrations
Absztrakt :
The unsustainability of the traditional, force – and coercion–based strategies and
tactics used in public assembly management has been recognized in many European countries. This paradigm shift has been confirmed by the events that occurred
in Kiev, in the period of November 2013 and January 2014. The improperly chosen public assembly management strategies and procedures applied during the
Maidan square events have not only shook public order fundamentally, but also
led to consequences which may hurt the state sovereignty and territorial integrity
itself. The democratic rule of law, the pressure of the mass media — complete with
the modern theories of social psychology developed in relation to the behaviour of
the crowd — force giving up the practice previously used by the law enforcement
organizations implementing public assembly management. As the first–line defender of the freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, European law enforcement
organizations recently had to look for new methods, and had to organize their
practice used in public assembly management along entirely new concepts. Backed
up by the results of social science, the police strategies and tactics based on communication, dialogue, and facilitation gather ground in Europe more and more. In my study I would like to introduce these new principles used in public assembly
management.