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How human performance improvement can reduce accidents and improve resilience
The field of human performance is relatively unknown outside large, high hazard organisations in man...
How a grass-roots charity is beating malaria in Zambia
Anastasia Kyriacou speaks to the founder of a small charity, The Butterfly Tree, explains why its ma...
Climate change will displace millions in coming decades; nations should prepare now to help them
Wildfires tearing across Southern California have forced thousands of residents to evacuate from the...
Facilitating two-way public communication in crisis and disaster management
Susan Anson, Katrina Petersen and Hayley Watson outline several projects in which Trilateral Researc...
The demise of the Golden Hour
Historically, in the field of emergency management or crisis management, the first hour after a cata...
Arctic search and rescue capability for mass rescue operations
Martin Boyle says that operations in remote Polar Regions can be extremely challenging and dema...
US National Incident Management System – 2017 update
The US NIMS update is based on experience from the unforgiving environment of real world events and ...
Exploiting limbic reactions to protect crowds in emergencies
Editorial Advisory Panel Member Lina Kolesnikova suggests that perhaps the reactions of 'run', 'hide...
Iran earthquake: the disaster, impact and response
Mostafa Mohaghegh, Senior Adviser for Cooperation and Co-ordination, IFRC, and CRJ Editorial Advisor...
Fifteen years after Moscow theatre siege, questions still remain
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the Moscow Dubrovka theatre siege, where hundreds of people ...
Humanitarian aid: It’s a matter of trust
When the need for ever-greater humanitarian action is required in so many parts of the world, is int...
Telephone terrorism continues to target Russian towns and cities
Some Russian cities have been near-paralysed after being targeted by repeated, simultaneous mass bom...
Migration, refugees and criminal exploitation
Lina Kolensikova and Emily Hough say that criminal elements exploiting migration routes are hardenin...
The importance of crisis communication – Lessons from Ryanair
David Stewart, one of the Crisis Response Journal's Directors, looks at crisis communication pl...
Terrorist attacks with knives
As predicted by European security experts, this summer has brought more cases of terrorist attacks i...
The five things a horse can teach you about crisis management
Two years ago, despite a life-long allergy and a sworn aversion to getting even remotely close to an...
USAR Blog: Learning the lessons from Australia's worst landslide
Australia’s worst landslide disaster took place at 23:30hrs on Wednesday 30th July 1997, in Th...
Revisiting Utoya
CRJ Editorial Panel Member Robert McAlister is in Oslo for the sixth Anniversary of the July 22...