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This major and heavy responsibility will create a pressing need, an urgent demand for objective, unbiased and independent scholarly research that studies and analyzes the victimisation phenomenon, its extent, its manifestations, its contexts, its protagonists, as well as the ways and means of controlling it, reducing its incidence and alleviating its impact. Victimology becomes the social science par excellence. More than any other discipline, it has the potential of providing empirical factual data on, and credible measurements of, victimisation and to offer evidence – based solutions. In the conflict ridden society of tomorrow, Victimology will be called upon to play a primary role similar to the one medicine was asked to perform when the Corona pandemic struck. All indicators suggest that the need for Victimology will become more evident and more pressing. Victimology will gain in importance and stature and will be constantly appealed to and called upon to provide not only valuable and much needed information but also answers, explanations and potential solutions.