+1 862 207 3288 How does the idea of ëcomplex emergenciesí reflect changes in the understanding of risk and danger in the post-Cold War security environment?
Seminar 1: Crises, Disasters, Emergencies: Background Concepts and Issues
Seminar Introduction:
We are living through what many would agree is an ‘age of crisis’. Financial crises, geopolitical crises, health crises, environmental crises, and refugee crises (amongst others) appear regularly in our daily news. Seminar 2 will look to situate these developments in a historical context. On the one hand we will look to place the concept of crisis in a historical context, but on the other we will ask what living in an ‘age of crisis’ makes of us?
We will use this seminar, firstly, to ask what it means to frame a problem as a ‘crisis’? What is a crisis? How does a crisis differ from a disaster, an emergency, or a catastrophe? What kind of response does a crisis demand?
Second, we will inquire into the different ways in which crisis is understood across disciplines. What similarities and differences can be found in the way in which ‘crisis’ is understood across Economics, International Relations, History or Philosophy (amongst others)? How are crises responded to in these disparate disciplines? What implications does this have on the way in which each discipline is organized?
Finally, we will ask about the place of crisis in history. What age didn’t regard itself as an age of crisis? What is new about the way in which we regard our crises? What does this tell us about our contemporary condition?
Aims:
to introduce students to the concept of ‘crisis’
to inquire into the status of crises, emergencies and disasters within the current security environment
to inquire into the social, political and historical implications of recognizing our time as an ‘age of crisis’
Seminar 2: The Evolution of International Crisis and Emergency Management
Seminar Introduction:
Crisis and emergency management is now receiving substantial governmental and scholarly attention. A series of high profile incidences including terrorism, civil wars, financial crises and natural/technological disasters have provided the impetus to a profound restructing in the logics and practices of contemporary emergency response. Driven by the assumption that the world is an increasingly uncertain and dangerous place, substantial investments are now being made to ensure our resilience to the next major event.
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