Determining Key Elements of Success in the Course of Preventing Security Crisis Management

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In regards to the complex, dynamic and ambiguous environmemt having uncertainty in internal security field, one of the most effective factors in the success of crisis management is the power to prevent occurrence and spread of crises which requires the key factors of success in the course of preventing security crises management, to be identified and determined. This research is of applied and developmental type in terms of objective and it has descriptive-analytical nature with a mixed discory approach. The expert society includes experts of the General Staff, Ministry of Interior, Law Enforcement General Command, IRIGC, Ministry of Intelligence, Supreme National Security Secretariat, State Security Council and the like and these experts have a minimum 10 years of experience and responsibility in the fields of security and crisis management. Expert sampling is puroseful and it is theoretical till the saturation level. To analyze the collected data, systematic resource review methods were used and contents analysis was also utilized in order to categoraize
and classify the research elements and ranking average was put to use, as well. To check validity and reliability, Cronbach Alpha factors were used and to check combined reliability, the SPSS software was also used. The most important key
success factors of the preventive process of security crises management include: control and management of cyberspace with producing contents and conducting psychological operations, preventing political and supportive measures of rioters abroad, prevention or mitigation of the load of the polarization of the society in g crisisgeneratin issues, information dissemination and thoughts management in order to persuade the society before the occurrence of unrest and the like.

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