Variables and Criteria Affecting Passive Defense in the Face of the Threat of Social Unrest

People-centered threats have a special place in passive defense. These threats come not from a foreign enemy but from one of the most valuable assets - the people. By acknowledging non-violence in the face of this type of threat, the science of passive defense, is one of the most appropriate ways to deal with these threats. In this regard, the five goals defined in this science express the need for comprehensive and specialized knowledge of variables and their nature, and by recognizing the variables, the possibility of monitoring and evaluating them and thus predicting and managing the crisis is provided. The main purpose of this study is to extract and prioritize macro variables affecting passive defense with emphasis on people-centered threats. This research descriptively-analytically and during the field survey process, first with the tools of library study and interviews, the variables are extracted and then prioritizes them in the range of threats of people in passive defense. In the research process, eight macro variables were extracted, the first priority being related to the domestic policy variables, and among its sub-variables, the political legitimacy variable has a higher priority than the other variables. The macro variable of social criteria is in the second priority, and among its five subsets, the variable of class balance has a higher priority than other variables. The results of the study strongly emphasize the importance of non-physical variables in the face of people-centered threats.