09 Apr Based on your research, in your opinion, what are the two top crisis types that the homeland should plan, prepare and mitigate?

Priorities and budget often are the limiting factors in readiness. The potential of dealing with a crisis always exists regardless of whether it is personal, an organization, our country or the world.

Considering the following links:

·        United Nations. (2022). Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet: Global issues.  https://www.un.org/en/global-issues

·        25 Worst Natural Disasters Ever Recorded: http://list25.com/25-worst-natural-disasters-recorded/

1.      Based on your research, in your opinion, what are the two top crisis types that the homeland should plan, prepare and mitigate? 

2.      Of the two types, which do you think is the most important and why? 

3.      Which of the crisis chosen need international cooperation to successfully mitigate?

4.      In your opinion, how prepared do you think our nation is today for this crisis?

5.      Required Reading

6.      Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance, How Can Leadership Strengthen Crisis Management? Survival Guide for The 21st Century (2010, Feb 17), Retrieved from: http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/170210.php

7.      Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2022, December). National Preparedness Report. Retrieved from https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_2022-npr.pdf

8.      Federal Emergency Management Agency.  (2021, September). Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans.  Retrieved from https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_cpg-101-v3-developing-maintaining-eops.pdf

9.      Department of Homeland Security. (2019, October 28). National Response Framework (4th Ed.), Retrieved from https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/NRF_FINALApproved_2011028.pdf

10.   Department of Homeland Security. (2011, April).  Risk Management Fundamentals: Homeland Security Risk Management Doctrine (pp. 7-9).  Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/rma-risk-management-fundamentals.pdf

11.   Fischer, R.P., Halibozek, E., and Walters, D. C. (2013), Introduction to security, 9th Edition. Retrieved from Trident Online Library. Read Chapter 11.

12.   Nizamidou, C. (2023). Lessons in crisis leadership from 9/11: Delineating the constituents of crisis leadership and their utilization in the context of covid-19. The Irish Journal of Management. Retrieved from Trident University Library. 

13.   Presidential Policy Directive / PPD-8: National Preparedness: National Preparedness (2011, Mar 30). Retrieved from http://www.dhs.gov/presidential-policy-directive-8-national-preparedness

14.   Pearson, C. M. and Clair, J. A. (1998), Reframing crisis management, Academy of Management, The Academy of Management Review, 23(1), 59-76. (Available from Trident Online Library)

15.   VanWart, M. (2011). Crisis management competencies: The case of emergency managers in the USA. Public Management Review, 13(4), 489-511.  10.1080/14719037.2010.52503.  Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.  

16.   Wu, Y. L., Shao, B., Newman, A., & Schwarz, G. (2021). Crisis leadership: A review and future research agenda. The Leadership Quarterly, 32(6), 101518. Retrieved from Trident Univesity Library. 

17.   Required Websites

18.   FEMA:http://www.fema.gov

19.   National Security Memoranda [NSMs]. Joseph R. Biden Jr. Administration: https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/nsm/index.html

20.   Presidential Directives, DHS https://www.dhs.gov/presidential-directives