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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...