Freedom and safety – are they compatible or not?
All or most of us love freedom and want to feel safe. Can we have both or does one exclude the other? Which of them to choose if we have to? And was President Benjamin Franklin right saying that “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”?
prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.
A natural scientist in a technical environment. A scientific worker and university pedagogue at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava. His work life focuses on safety and environment protection. He has vast international experience as a lecturer and expert in the area of environment protection, safety and elimination of catastrophe risks. He is a member of the EU, OECD, OSN (UNISDR and UNECE) and NATO working groups dealing with safety and catastrophes. He is the delegate of the Czech Republic in the in the EU Horizon 2020 programme committee – Safe society, a member of the Expert group for international cooperation in the safety research of the Czech Republic. He cooperated on the identification of the Czech safety research priorities and on the preparation of the Environmental Safety Concept of the Czech Republic. He was awarded a merit medal by the Fire Brigade Directorate General.