Health Security - Role of the Security Sector in Combating the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Bezpečnost zdraví-role bezpečnostního sektoru v boji proti vzplanutí Ebola 2014 v Sierra Leone
diplomová práce (OBHÁJENO)
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Trvalý odkaz
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/117097Identifikátory
SIS: 216144
Kolekce
- Kvalifikační práce [17123]
Autor
Vedoucí práce
Oponent práce
Tesař, Jakub
Butler, Eamonn
Fakulta / součást
Fakulta sociálních věd
Obor
International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS)
Katedra / ústav / klinika
Katedra bezpečnostních studií
Datum obhajoby
5. 3. 2020
Nakladatel
Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních vědJazyk
Angličtina
Známka
Dobře
This study assessed the role of the security sector in combating the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. In achieving the overall goal of the study, the assessment broadly covered the following: examined the national response structure before the outbreak; the emergence of Ebola and conspiracy theories in Sierra Leone, ascertained the early national Ebola response structure; the transition and composition to a new response architecture; assessed the effectiveness of policies and strategies by the security sector in combating Ebola; ascertained whether the effects of policies and strategies implored by the security sector in response to the outbreak; evaluated the impact of civil-military relations in combating the outbreak; and in the end examined the overall challenges in terms of the security sector's roles, and policies and strategies implored in responding to the outbreak. These areas broadly correspond to some of the objectives in response to the security sector's roles. Based on findings from assessing the areas stated above, the study has argued that the role played by the security sector in combating the 2014 Ebola outbreak have been largely effective. But while the role of the security sector has been largely positive, but this is not without many other factors - notably without the...