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Agriculture as a terrorist target: Time to address vulnerabilities
The lack of risk assessments in the agricultural and environmental systems sectors has undoubtedly a...
Brexit in seven possible scenarios
On June 27, 2016, Dr Patrick Lagadec examined some scenarios regarding how exactly the UK ...
Next flu pandemic could double past cost estimates
A pandemic influenza outbreak in the United States could have widespread economic costs nearly doubl...
CRJ comment on Brexit: What next for emergency resilience and response?
The Crisis Response Journal is a proudly apolitical publication; this is one of our fundamental doct...
Final conference of European Critical Infrastructure Protection project
The Euconcip (European Co-operation Network on Critical Infrastructure Protection) Final Confer...
Artificial intelligence: Essential ingredient but no panacea
Michael McCabe says that although artificial intelligence brings real benefits in the security ...
Security challenges facing the Balkans
Editorial Advisory Panel Member Lina Kolesnikova reports on a conference that looked at crime i...
Low cost weather centres to help prevent flash flooding in Sri Lanka
Soumya Balasubramanya and Yann Chemin describe how open-source mobile weather monitoring c...
What makes the public more likely to second-guess authorities during a crisis?
In a digital age when people have many information sources, during a crisis they will not always see...
Bringing CERT and SAR training to Nepal
Dr Behrouz Moghaddasi, a physician from Iran and founder of that country's Search and Rescue Te...
The hazards of managing spontaneous volunteers during emergencies
Asfandeyar Niazi says that although Pakistan now has rescue teams and a respectable, and expanding, ...
Count every child: Finding and registering Pakistan's invisible children
Luavut Zahid, our Pakistan Correspondent and Blog Editor, commissioned this piece because: “Pa...
Should we be concerned about the ISIL nuclear and dirty bomb threat?
The Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC at the end of March put the threat of ISIL using s...
How to get communities in East Africa to trust climate science
Jennifer Leavy, Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK, highlights the importan...
IPA Global Anti-Terrorism Forum held in Macau
The International Police Association (IPA) Forum for Global Anti-Terrorism was held in Macau, China ...
Communities can help to defeat terrorism
Communities have a role to play in keeping where they live safe by reporting suspicious activity, sa...
Are we doing enough to safeguard healthcare services?
On February 15, three more healthcare facilities in Syria were bombed. With the sound of those explo...
The first anniversary of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Today (March 18, 2016) the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) is celebrating&...