This thesis is focused on risk transfer from insurance companies to other institutions -- reisurance companies. The thesis deals with the importance of reinsurance in the system of insurance. The meaning, functions and duties of reinsurance are provided in the introductory part. The thesis then discusses the beginning and history of reinsurance. The work examines the classification of reinsurance according to various criteria including alternative risk transfer and other options of reinsurance relationships. An important part of the work is the analysis of new reinsurance legislation that is included in Insurance Law. In the final part of the thesis is described the reinsurance functioning on the practical aspects in a Life Company and in VIG RE Reinsurance Company which is the first reinsurance company based in Prague. Part of this work treats of the catastrophic events that significantly influenced world's and Czech insurance, including reinsurance.

Darbe siekiama apžvelgti Lenkijos žiniasklaidos pranešimus ir internautų komentarus apie 2010 metų katastrofą Smolenske. Stengtasi atskleisti kokius požiūrius ir klausimus jie suformavo. Darbų apie Smolensko katastrofą sukurta keliolika, tačiau yra atliktas tik vienas darbas, kurio tyrimo pagrindu buvo pranešimai ir visuomenės reakcijos. Darbo objektas: Lenkijos žiniasklaidos pranešimai apie 2010 m. katastrofą Smolenske. Darbo tikslas - peržiūrėjus Lenkijos žiniasklaidos pranešimus, susijusius su 2010 metų balandžio 10 d. įvykusią prezidentinio lėktuvo katastrofą Smolenske, išsiaiškinti, kaip žiniasklaida informavo apie įvykusią katastrofą. Vėliau išnagrinėti kokį poveikį visuomenei turėjo minimi pranešimai, t.y., kokius klausimus ir požiūrius apie katastrofą jie suformavo. Darbo aktualumo garantuoja vis neišaiškintos katastrofos priežastys ir klausimai. Darbą sudaro keturi skyriai. Pirmame analizuojami psichologiniai katastrofų aspektai, antrame apžvelgiamos nelaimės nuojautos prieš įvykstant katastrofai, trečiame skyriuje analizuojami straipsniai ką tik katastrofai įvykus, ketvirtame skyriuje apžvelgiami straipsniai kiek aprimus situacijai, o penktame nagrinėjamas visuomenės požiūris į nuolatinį pranešimų apie katastrofą egzistavimą žiniasklaidoje. Darbas analitinis, aprašomasis, lyginamasis. Atlikti duomenys padėjo atskleisti iškelta tikslą. Atlikus tyrimą paaiškėjo, kad pranešimai apie Smolenską sukėlė daugelį emocijų – tiek neigiamų, tiek teigiamų. Pirmieji... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This work will review Polish new source announcements and internet commentaries about the catastrophe in Smolensk in 2010. It will reveal the opinions and questions that resulted after the event. There are several works regarding the catastrophe in Smolensk, however only one of them focuses on the public’s reaction as well as the announcements that were made. Work's objective: Polish new source announcements about the catastrophe in Smolensk in 2010. Work’s purpose: a review of the Polish new source announcements relating to the presidential plane catastrophe on April 10th, 2010 in Smolensk and how the news informed the public about this event. Then, to analyze the impact on the public that these announcements had, that is what questions and opinions arose. The work’s topicality guarantees a still unclear cause of the catastrophe and questions related to it. There are five parts to this work. The first analyzes the psychological aspects of the catastrophe, the second a review of the tragedies presentment before the catastrophe, the third an analysis of articles just after the catastrophe, the fourth an examination of the articles post the catastrophe, and the fifth an investigation of the public’s reaction to the announcements in news sources. The work is analytic, descriptive, and comparative. The material helped to reveal the intended objective. After completion of the investigation, it became clear that the announcements made regarding the catastrophe in Smolensk provoked... [to full text]

The aim of this diploma thesis was to analyze an influence of most important humanitarian actors and evaluate their cooperation and efficiency. The task of this thesis was too to show that humanitarian and development aid doesn't have to bring expectable results every time. Low effectiveness of humanitarian activities isn't only the consequence of an insufficient coordination of humanitarian organizations, but it particularly caused by features of a given country, its institutions, its rules and non-existing democracy. On the basis of this knowledge, the analysis of humanitarian aid in Haiti was conducted in this work, which became known to the public all over the world due to a devastating earthquake in January 2010, in spite of the fact that its economic situation has been for very poor for a long time before. The thesis also points on some mistakes of humanitarian organizations in the most important sectors and suggests its solution. I see the solution in a shift from a short-term and passive aid to the long-term and actively-received aid.

This master thesis is showing the humanitarian logistics as a complex and important part of the humanitarian response. The theoretical part explains the specifics of a humanitarian environment and compares humanitarian and enterprise logistics. A part of the theory is focused on the international humanitarian response of the Czech Republic and its financial aspects. The application part of the thesis analyses each phase of the humanitarian supply chain with practical examples and is followed by instruments of the enterprise logistics that can be applied on humanitarian sector and that help to optimize the humanitarian supply chain and enhance the efficiency of the response in emergencies. The thesis provides the reader with two case studies from the field built on the experience of the logisticians from two international non-governmental organizations and with an assessment of these according to the aforementioned instruments.

Thesis shows progression of catastrophic events and their influence on insurance market. Insurance and reinsurance are connected to conception of catastrophes and therefore it is necessary that this thesis firstly presents key features and classification of notion catastrophe itself. For understanding of the notion is important to differentiate between nature and manmade disasters. Next part summarizes large-scale events in 2008, significant events in the past and disasters in Czech Republic. Catastrophic events are analyzed from various angles, but the most important one seems to be insured losses volume. The core of the thesis is concerned with explanation of the disaster trend and its consequences. Key problem of disaster insurance is connected to the question, how to cover catastrophic losses for both, individuals and insurance companies.

The thesis presents research on relationships in the context of the unfinalized lyric project Potopa (The Flood) of František Halas. Main points of analysis are questions of fragment, catastrophe and of (lyric) speaker or witness in the sense of specific speech formed by the traumatic event. A reading of the poems belonging to The Flood (as well as the question of the borders of the text and questions of the whole and possible shape of the piece in general) is founded mainly in the context of Christianity, thematic and compositional connections and with regard to the historical event. I'm not so concerned with the national accents of the works of Halas at that time (his engagement in the Czech resistance was interrupted after the arrest of Vladislav Vančura and others by Gestapo - for Halas it's also the time of the most intensive work on Potopa). The aim is rather to see The Flood as a poem witnessing the horror and the catastrophe of the second world war in general. After the opening analysis of characteristic traits of The Flood follows comparisons with selected works of czech literature, primarily with Znamení moci (The Sign of Power) of Jan Zahradníček, Básně z koncentračního tábora (Poems from the concentration camp) of Josef Čapek and Čas (Apokalypsa mixte) (Time) of Jiří Kolář. In concrete...

This diploma thesis on social impacts of disasters and their solutions deals with disasters that have accompanied the mankind from the very beginning, their impacts and the effective solutions of such impacts. The theoretical section, in the first chapter, introduces the concept of disaster and it describes disasters that struck the Earth in the past and endangered substantially human lives. The second chapter is devoted to disasters of the 21st century and is divided into two parts. The first part of the second chapter deals with disasters of the 21st century in the world, including the current situation in Japan and the other part introduces major disasters of the 21st century in our country. The third chapter of the theoretical section focuses on the characteristics of basic disasters that may occur in the Czech Republic. The fourth chapter informs us about the impact and consequences of extraordinary events and crisis situations in the Czech Republic and about their solutions. This chapter introduces us to the way the Czech Republic addresses social impacts of disasters, which are an important factor in determining the seriousness of disasters. The concept of social impacts of disasters includes not only the loss of life or property, but also reduced ability of self-support of people affected by disasters caused by closing down businesses and their decreased work ability. The last chapter of the theoretical section, chapter five, deals with the role and responsibilities of state authorities and local governments during extraordinary events and crisis situations. This thesis aims at specifying social impacts of disasters and to propose some solutions. The results of quantitative research using questionnaire survey showed that we can confirm working hypothesis no. one, i.e. that one of the major impacts of disasters are social impacts. The thesis also includes research conducted using the method of guided interviews thanks to which we can confirm the second working hypothesis, i.e. that dealing with the impact takes place mostly in the reconstruction period after the crisis situation. Knowledge obtained while working on this thesis may serve as a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the Czech Republic in terms of dealing with social impacts of disasters.

Diploma work includes summary of aeroplanes accidents, incurred by human factor malfunction in general aviation and in ultralight aeroplanes category on Czech Republic territory since year 2000. It analyses accidents enclosures with a view to discover similarities near particular accidents. From ascertained lockworks ared proposal created for possibly steps, how prevent rise of these accidents. Part of this work are also attachments (formularies, etc.).

This dissertation follows the topic of media and visual communication with relations to art. The theoretical part explains the usage and influence of such medias in the past and present, the communication between people and their visual statements, their psychological effects in connection to the manipulation of the picture. The practial part on the other hand, further explains the precise catastrophical events in the news and their overall effect in connection to personal explenations of said catastrophy. The last, Didaktical part, goes into detail on the transformation of catastrophies and possibility of applicating the medial education into the general creative uprbringing. Key Words Media, communcation, visual statements, manipulation of picture, catastrophy, medial education Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)