Contemporary security and legal systems are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected, and difficult-to-predict risks, which challenge the effectiveness of traditional, sector-based approaches to risk management. Integrated Risk Management has emerged as a response to this complexity, based on the assumption that risks must be addressed systemically, taking into account their social, legal, and security dimensions. In this context, education, and higher education institutions in particular, play a crucial role in developing the knowledge, competencies, and security culture necessary for implementing an integrated approach. This paper examines the role of higher education institutions in the development of multidisciplinary and integrated risk management, drawing on theoretical approaches to risk and contemporary security studies. Special attention is paid to education as a security resource, the role of higher education institutions in shaping professional identities and security culture, and the importance of multidisciplinarity in understanding and managing contemporary risks. The analysis draws on relevant domestic and international academic literature in security, law, education, and risk studies. The paper concludes that integrated risk management cannot be sustained without a strong educational foundation and that higher education institutions represent one of the key actors in building institutional and societal resilience.
Bošković et al. (Tue,) studied this question.