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Olympic security: a model for homeland security
This article addresses how Olympic security preparations can be used as a long-term homeland security tool.
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Building Resilience for the 2012 Games and Beyond
The 2012 Olympic Games will be the biggest, most organisationally demanding public event ever undertaken by the UK.
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Olympic Security

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Olympic Security
Assuring security during the Olympic games has been an issue of paramount concern ever since the massacre of Israeli athletes in the Munich Games of 1972. Here presented are articles analysing issues that have emerged since the Athens Games, and those that will emerge in the forthcoming Beijing Games in 2008 and London in 2012.


Commentary

China flagBeijing Olympics – Terror in Xinjiang
The killing of Chinese border police ahead of the Beijing Olympics by a group seeking to emulate the broader global trend of Islamic extremism, now presents an ill-defined yet pernicious threat throughout China.
Tianshan Lions BrigadeXinjiang: the hidden dimension to China's separatist problem
Although the world’s attention is focused on the unfolding events in Tibet, the greater threat to Beijing’s power is from neighbouring Xinjiang. The restive province, home of the Muslim Uighur, has been the scene of dissent and anti-Chinese protest for decades.
Olympic Relay Tibet ProtestWe Are all Protestors Now
Those entrusted with the security of the Olympic Games must consider how they keep the peace in the face of global and well organised protest.