DEVELOPING A RESILIENT PUBLIC SECURITY SYSTEM 7.1 Our vision for ensuring state and public security is the development of a highly resilient system of state governance. In this regard, high levels of both legal and public awareness are of pivotal significance. Our goal is to become one of the safest states in the world. Our vision for ensuring state and public security is the development of a highly resilient system of state governance. 7.2 Armenia shall continue harmonizing and increasing the effectiveness of the state governing system, law enforcement agencies, special services, and state audit institutions. From this perspective, we ascribe importance to those kinds of legal-bureaucratic reforms of security institutions that are distinctive to democratic, parliamentary states, thus ensuring not only transparency, but also higher levels of parliamentary, political, and civil oversight. 7.3 In the context of ensuring state and public security, Armenia ascribes importance to improving the capacity of state and local government institutions to employ a permanent and comprehensive risk management system, as well as advancing risk management capabilities. From this perspective, we shall emphasize the development of an evidence-based, interdisciplinary, and interministerial system of identifying, evaluating, and classifying risks on a national scale, which shall contribute to increasing the efficiency of the risk management process. 7.4 Armenia shall consistently continue to reduce the risk of man-made and natural disasters to improve its systems of rapid and targeted response, ensure organized and timely elimination of consequences, increase the level of public awareness during emergencies, and improve disaster-resistant rehabilitation systems. 7.5 The continual reduction of domestic crime rates is one of our priorities. Considering the concept of a violence-free society as an important prerequisite for social solidarity, we shall seek to reject the culture of violence. We shall pay special attention to preventing the spread of the criminal subculture—the particular behavior and set of rules prescribed and recognized by criminal networks. Violence, xenophobia, and the criminal subculture have no place in our society. 7.6 Armenia shall consistently combat the disruptive intelligence activities carried out by special services of foreign states, as well as organizations and individuals harming Armenia’s national interests. We shall also combat other violent manifestations of international terrorism and extremism, domestic and transnational organized crime, illicit trade in arms and ammunition, illegal migration, human trafficking, and money laundering. We shall also expand and deepen international cooperation in the fight against various forms of criminal activity. 28 | NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF RA