Academics and practitioners see resilience as a critical driver of a community's success or failure in recovering or bouncing back from disasters. Jill Raycroft discusses her thesis, "Realizing Resilience: A Study of Definition, Indicators, and Operationalization," and provides insight into improving resilience by bridging how it is studied in theory and practiced in the field.
Michelle Mallek (CHDS cohort 1401) is legal counsel at FEMA and decided to study ‘Sovereigns‘ because much of the terrorist discussion in mainstream media...
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) guide emergency responders in a crisis, providing predetermined steps to manage anticipated events. However, modern disasters often manifest as complex...
Reports of police use of excessive force appear weekly in the media and have generated outrage in many communities. Officers actions are currently judged...
