Journal
Welcome to the Centuria Journal. Here you can expect interesting interviews with lecturers, students or alumnis, fascinating deep dives into safety- and security-related topics and event recaps, covering extracurricular activities from our most dedicated students!
On this page, you can find the most recent articles, categories to search for a specific topic and an application form for the Journal Committee.
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Self-Organized Criticality in Safety Sciences
By Hans Propsma The largest forest fire recorded at Yellowstone National Park in the United States occurred in 1988. It began as multiple smaller fires before converging into several large fires. The fires burned a total of 800,000 acres (~3,200 km²) from June until November (U.S. National Park Service, 2025). Once the situation was under…
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Greenland Deal and Davos
By Kinga Petho The World Economic Forum, organised annually in Davos, Switzerland is subject to significant international interest every year due to their unique goal of bringing together stakeholders from the private and public sphere to discuss contemporary geopolitical issues. In 2026, the themes to be discussed revolved around geopolitical polarisation, technological transformation and economic…
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Illegal Organ Transplants: The Seedy Underbelly of a Life-Saving Procedure
By Anna Vlugt, Editor-in-Chief Introduction: Approximately 172,000 organ transplants are performed every year (Mendoza, 2025). However, anywhere between five and 10 percent of these life-saving surgeries involve illicit practices: the organs come from the black market (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, n.d.). The following article attempts to address this problem by starting at…
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The Evolution of Security Failures
By Sophia Angelina Baerend Introduction 11 of November, 1918 saw the first day of relative international peace in four years, three months and two days. The end of World War I sparked the collapse of empires, the drawing of new borders, and the creation of armistices (a formal agreement to stop active combat) and treaties…
Want to join the Journal Committee and contribute to SSMS in a meaningful way? Our current team consists of Anna Vlugt, Kinga Pethő, Marit van der Laan, Hans Propsma, and Shaadiya Mohammed. We would love to welcome you to our team!
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