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Conserving our culture
In a modern, consumerised world, where disposable items and quick-fixes are always to hand and futur...

The lesser-known hospital heroes
Close your eyes and think of a hospital. What do you see? Fuelled by TV and film depictions, ...

Are you prepared for crisis?
Drawing on its clients' years of experience, Conducttr has released a documentary series to generate...

How does a flood-prone city run out of water? Inside Chennai’s ‘Day Zero’ crisis
India's sixth largest city, with over 10 million inhabitants, currently faces a severe drinking wa...

The rise of mobile health in developing countries
Anastasia Kyriacou outlines the discussions, held by representatives from AidEx ...

CRJ 14:3 out now!
The CRJ team has been out and about these last few months, attending events, and helping with confer...

Negotiator competition: Blessed are the peacemakers
In January 1990, Dr Wayman Mullins and Dr Michael McMains threw down the gauntlet to challenge their...

CitizenAid app and guide designed to inform the public how to act in a terror attack
In the UK, the current threat level from international terrorism is set as severe. Since the London ...

Mobile delivery rooms can provide valuable services to maternity services under strain
Nothing is quite as emotive as the image of a new-born baby and its mother. There is a level of expe...

Resilience is not just about dealing with traumatic incidents at work… Â
Have you ever noticed any of these in yourself or a colleague, asks Andy Elwood. Irritability, aggre...

New course on disaster health for public and professionals
The Uniformed Services University (USU) of the health sciences is the US military’s centre of ...

Protecting cities against terrorism
Lina Kolesnikova, member of Advisory Board of Crisis Response Journal and a Fellow of Institute of C...

Catch-22 dilemma in response to complex emergencies
In my latest blog I would like to attract the attention of terrorist attack responders to the Catch-...

Why Your Security Strategy Needs Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans
Maintaining corporate security during a disaster and keeping employees safe goes hand in hand with r...

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) tests international capabilities for nuclear and radiological emergencies
The annual schedule of exercises set by the IAEA Incident and Emergency Centre is designed to t...

A report on the Second International Conference on Risks, Security and Citizenship in Setúbal, Portugal
Lina Kolesnikova took part in the Second International Conference on Risks, Security and Citize...

Making social media data valuable for humanitarian actors
The value of using social media across all disaster phases is well documented with applications bein...

Virtual kidnapping
CRJ Key Network Partner, Markham, says that we have all heard about traditional kidnapping whereby a...