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New Editorial Board Members

CRJ is delighted to welcome four new Members onto our Editorial Advisory Panel. Drs Erie Braakhekke has a background in behavioural science and works for the Police Academy of the Netherlands at the School for Critical Incident Management, where...

Comment - CRJ Issue 8:4

Crisis Response Journal, Issue 8:2 has now gone to press and will be published shortly. Here, we give a preview of the comment column. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh (reported on in page 5 of the next issue CRJ) seeded a storm of m...

Korean tensions - an analysis

A lively discussion on Crisis Response Journal's LinkedIn Group is debating the Korean issue and civil defence preparedness. This has prompted us to present an analytical situation report kindly provided by Sibylline Intelligence Solutions, which ...

A deeper look at the causes of incidents...

On page 38 of the next issue of Crisis Response Journal, Phil Wood, MBE, Head of the Department of Security and Resilience at Buckinghamshire New University in the UK, says that the disciplines of crisis and disaster response usually deal with rea...

'Out of the Box' exercise by Christo Motz

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christo Motz describes an exercise he organised recently for the Zoetermeer Fire Brigade in the Netherlands Education, training and practice - the well-known trinity within the worlds of firefighting, crisis prepara...

New Advisory Panel Member

Crisis Response Journal is delighted to welcome Lee Howell to the Editorial Advisory Panel. Lee Howell (is the Immediate Past President of the UK Chief Fire Officers’ Association and the current Chief Fire Officer/Chief Executive for Devon and Som...

Vigilant and resilient society in Finland

Christo Motz provides a brief update on a visit to Finland, where he met the Director of the Civil Defence League, part of SPEK, the Finnish National Rescue Association, and Mrs Mia Kunnaskari, SPEK Co-ordinator. In September, I visited Helsinki i...

Crisis Response Journal (Volume 8, issue 2)

In the next issue of Crisis Response Journal (Volume 8, issue 2 – published this week) Emily Hough examines how reliance on now-common technology could well have created even greater vulnerability in a crisis Mobile phones, especially smartphones,...

From the frontline

Editorial Advisory Panel Member, Alvaro Pemartin, works as a Remote Site Officer for International SOS – a challenging, yet immensely rewarding role. Although our small world is growing smaller thanks to improvements in communication and transport...

Survival First Aid Training in Estonia

Christo Motz looks at a recent course organised by the Estonia Defence League, which aims to teach participants how to achieve self-sufficiency in times of crisis.   Identifying medicinal plants Upon invitation of First Lieutenant Erki Vaikre, co...

Christo Motz shares his personal impressions of a recent event he attended – the World Extreme Medicine Conference, 2012, London, UK.

Editorial Advisory Board Member Christo Motz shares his personal impressions of a recent event he attended – the World Extreme Medicine Conference, 2012, London, UK. Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Sunday, April 15: This dealt with the topics o...

The strategic void

The cover story on this issue of Crisis Response Journal is an interview with Philippe Baumard who sounds a global warning that strategic governance is losing touch with reality, that command has become a matter of: “Mastering the figures, not the...

Brigadier General Alois A Hirschmugl joins CRJ's Advisory Panel

A warm welcome to BrigGen Mag D Alois A Hirschmugl, who has agreed to sit on Crisis Response Journal's Editorial Advisory Panel. Mr Hirschmugl is currently Humanitarian Affairs Advisor to the Austrian Chief of Defence Staff, with more than 30 year...

Attacks on health carers in danger zones

Hospitals, ambulances and healthcare workers are coming under increasing attack as they tend to the sick and wounded in areas of armed conflict and violence. Dr Robin Coupland, advisor on armed violence for the International Committee of the Red C...

Managing urban recovery: policy, planning, concepts and cases

Recovery after a major disaster is often overlooked – after the heroic rescues, the tales of human suffering and endurance, the statistically-impressive clean-up efforts, the media moves onto the next event, national and international attention dw...

'Self-reliance, resilience and survival during a crisis' Part III

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christo Motz covers the military urban survival course he attended from September 18 – 24, 2011, in the area around Halmstad and deals with practical solutions and strategies to survive a worst-case scenario ...

Self-reliance, resilience and survival during a crisis PART II

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christo Motz provides a further update on his work in survival and crisis preparedness. Day 8: September 15, 2011 EU-collaboration The recent week has been very intense. On the morning of Friday, September 9, a meet...

Recovery, E-learning and strategic leadership - Editorial Board Member update

Andy Marshall, Director of Civil Contingencies for Staffordshire, UK, writes: Staff at the Civil Contingencies Unit (CCU) in Stafford (UK) are currently preparing to run a CBRN response and recovery exercise to validate Staffordshire’s mult...

Self-reliance, resilience and survival during a crisis

Editorial Advisory Panel Member, Christo Motz, provides us with an update of his travels and work in resilience and urban survival. Today, Wednesday, September 7, I arrived in Stockholm, for an 18- day working visit to the south of Sweden, during...

Essential reading - Dr Jay Levinson reviews a book on the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

The Indian ocean tsunami – the global response; reviewed by Dr Jay Levinson, Adj. Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Member of Crisis Response Journal's Editorial Advisory Panel The chapters in this well-edited book ...

Social media in crises - a force for good or bad?

There’s a lively discussion going on at CRJ’s LinkedIn Group at the moment, revolving around a discussion initiated by Ben Proctor. He asks whether we need new plans and doctrines to deal with a world where disorder can be co-ordinat...

CRJ August issue

We're putting the finishing touches to the August issue of Crisis Response Journal. The main feature will be looking at climate effects on emergency planning and response. We also have reports from Russia, Northern Ireland, Belarus, South Africa, ...

Volcanic disruption – learning from last year’s experience

As CRJ went to press last week, news began to emerge of the Grimsvötn volcanic eruption in Iceland, and fears of further aviation disruption have now materialised, though these were not as severe as during last April’s crisis and most ...

Resilience: Taking the wider view

Resilience is often seen by some through the lens of how many fire tenders or ambulances can be deployed into the scene of a disaster. Practitioners, however, know that underneath the somewhat numerical approach that can often be deemed suitable b...

Events - Counter Terror Expo

Crisis Response Journal has a stand at the Counter-Terror Expo. The event is being held today and tomorrow at Olympia, London. We're on stand N32, so if you happen to be in the area, pay us a visit!

Singapore

I am at the IAFPA Conference at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore, which is proving to be a fascinating and extremely well-organised event in a fantastic setting. Today, we heard from Changi Airport about how the Icelandic volcano and subsequent c...

Crisis Response LinkedIn Group

Andy Marshall, a member of CRJ’s Editorial Advisory Panel, started an interesting discussion on our LinkedIn Group last week. He asked whether anyone had ever had to prove ‘value for money’ for a publicly funded emergency plan...

Next Issue Update

Next issue update I’m delighted to announce that Professor Edward Blakely will be starting an in-depth series looking at recovery management in the next issue of CRJ. Ed Blakely has played leading roles in more US disaster recovery programm...

New Zealand quake update

I wouldn’t normally write a news update like this on our blog as there is no shortage of excellent and up-to-date information on the earthquake in New Zealand – the main value of CRJ lies in analysis and reflection. But I thought it ...

Solar Activity

Solar activity I was interested to note the BBC’s report that the Sun has unleashed its strongest flare in four years, triggering warnings of geomagnetic storms. This echoes the article by Dr Tony Phillips and Dr Madhulika Guhathakurta of N...

Welcome to the Crisis Response Journal Blog

Welcome to the Crisis Response Journal blog, which we’ll be using to update you with news, event launches, event reviews and emerging themes and topics. We’ll also be giving you updates on our editorial board members and partners. At...

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