Crisis, Conflict, Emergency Management - May 2022
Dear?Reader,
This month in our podcast we're focusing on?water security, or what may be known more appropriately as water insecurity. Access to freshwater was?declared a Human Right by the United Nations in 2010, and nations should work to provide basic safe water and sanitation for everyone – an objective of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. The failure to meet basic human needs for water contributes to the tensions over access to water, especially during droughts and extreme events. Strategies to enhance and enforce the protection of civilian water infrastructure during war, including existing international laws of war such as the Geneva Convention and its 1977 Protocols, could reduce the intentional targeting of water systems during conflicts.?
This month on the CCEM Podcast, we talk with?Dr. Ashok Swain?from Sweden. Dr. Swain?is an academic and professor of peace and conflict research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research,?Uppsala University.?In 2017, he was appointed as the?UNESCO?Chair on International Water Cooperation and became the first UNESCO Chair of Uppsala University.?He had served as the Director of the Uppsala Center for Sustainable Development from 2008 to 2012. During our talk, we discussed not only the challenges with regards to water security but tried to put our thoughts together about what we can do at the community level to ensure water security locally as well. Which is not an easy task, to say the least.?
In this edition, we are also publishing our first article from our colleagues in South Africa on?"Community strength in emergency and disaster risk management in the COVID19 and post-COVID19 era".?
Note: If you're interested in having your article, event, conference, or announcement published and shared with the community, just message me and let me know!
In this edition:
In our next episode of Crisis, Conflict, and Emergency Management we are going to discuss water security, and the impact on our societies that may lead to conflict or crisis. To help us navigate this complicated issue, we are joined by Dr. Ashok Swain.?Dr. Swain is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation, and also the Director f Research School for International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University, Sweden. Swain received his Ph.D. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1991, and since then he has been teaching at the Uppsala University.
He has been a Mac Arthur Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago, visiting professor/fellow at UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva; Tufts University, and many others. He has worked as a consultant on development issues for several UN agencies, OSCE, NATO, EU, IISS, and various government agencies of Sweden, the Netherland, the UK, and Singapore. Professor Swain published extensively on new security challenges, international water-sharing issues, and democratic development.
The CCEM Podcast is brought to you by?Capacity Building International (CBI)?and sponsored by?The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) and?can be found on Apple podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
What We're Reading
The pandemic exposed the fragility of our global supply chains and how vulnerable they are to disruption.?A more regionalized model would create greater flexibility and speed, allowing companies to be more nimble when problems arise.?Regionalized supply chains: the key to resilience
Disasters like hurricanes and wildfires affect hundreds of American communities.?Investments in disaster resilience can reduce the overall impact and costs of future disasters. We testified about federal opportunities to improve national preparedness and resilience.?Disaster Resilience: Opportunities to Improve National Preparedness
The?New Urban Agenda?presents a shared global vision for how to build, manage, and live in cities, through urbanization that is well-planned and well-managed.?It was adopted just one year after countries agreed to the?Sustainable Development Goals?(SDGs), the blueprint for a better future, for people and the planet, by 2030.?General Assembly Reviews Global Progress Towards Sustainable Urbanization
The mission of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is to keep people safe and secure across the United States during times of emergency, but its work doesn’t start only after disasters strike.?FEMA focuses on all aspects of emergency management, such as preparing for and responding to disasters and emergencies, working to mitigate the effects, and recovering from the impacts. "That’s the continuous cycle within the emergency management field and it’s constantly evolving," said Kim Kadesch, director of FEMA’s office of national capital region coordination.?How FEMA Coordinates To Help Before, During, And After Disasters
Our mission is simple:?We help people before, during, and after disasters. This mission is straightforward, but the execution is complicated.?Our world is dynamic and complex. There are new threats on the horizon and the potential consequences continue to increase.?FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell’s Remarks on the U.S. Approach to Crisis Management
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Education and Training
This 2-hour and 30-minute course provides an?overview of the relevant bodies of law and other normative guidance on protection?and will increase your understanding of how the legal framework both informs and provides the foundation of protection work. Upon completion of the course receive a certificate.?
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This course is designed?for aid workers working in Protection in humanitarian settings?but would benefit all persons working in the?humanitarian field. For course participants who have a legal background, the course provides a concise refresher.?This course was developed by ProCap whose mission is to strengthen interagency capacity and leadership to ensure protection is central to humanitarian action, through strategic support and expertise. ProCap is an IASC project and is jointly managed by NRC and OCHA.
Reader Contribution
Community strength in emergency and disaster risk management in the COVID19 and post-COVID19 era. Authors:?Roman Tandlich, Crystal M. Brown,?and Rene Oosthuizen
The initial emergency or disaster response can be organised and well-executed if plans exist for the disaster or emergency in question. For such ‘standard’ disasters, hazard registers and vulnerability assessments are in place and the disaster risks management systems have the human/logistical/technical capacity to perform the necessary unit operations of all stages in the disaster management cycle. If this is the case, e.g. a common type of disaster occurs in a geographical area, then the response phase of the disaster management cycle is executed by minimising the impacts of the disaster in question on humans and socio-ecological systems. Under such conditions, the disaster management cycle is executed in line with the disaster continuum model (Dube, 2018). If a disaster is not common in an area or the scope is outside of the normal parameters, i.e. the disaster risk management system is not capacitated to deal with the impact/outcomes of such a disaster, then unit operations from all stages of the disaster management cycle take place at once. This represents the expand-and-contract model of the disaster management cycle (Novajan et al., 2016). Disaster risk management systems can, however, also be adaptive in nature and even in the face of massive disasters.
Topics that CIPRE will be covering at the 2022 event – a great range of interesting and informative discussion points to bring you up to date with the?latest information and insight for developing your CI protection & resilience plans.
CIPRE 2022 will allow the industry to get back together to share experiences, as well as network and develop connections to collaborate on securing Europe.?This event is supported and co-organized by the?International Association of CIP Professionals.?Check?the?Outline Conference Programme Agenda?for the event.?And we can confirm that TIEMS Members get?a 25% Discount?on the Registration Fee!
Organizational Profile –?International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee (IRC)?helps people affected by humanitarian crises?— including the climate crisis—to survive, recover and rebuild their lives. Founded at the call of Albert Einstein in 1933, the IRC is now at work in over 40 crisis-affected countries as well as communities throughout Europe and the Americas.?We deliver lasting impact by providing health care, helping children learn, and empowering individuals and communities to become self-reliant, always seeking to address the inequalities facing women and girls.
Since the International Rescue Committee (IRC) was first founded at the request of Albert Einstein in 1933, our global team of more than 17,000 staff have helped people upended by conflict and crisis to survive, recover, and regain control of their lives. Today?we work in?more than 40 countries?and over 20 U.S. and European cities, from conflict-affected countries like Yemen to resettlement communities like Boise, Idaho.
We focus our support in five areas: ensuring?safety?from harm, improving?health, increasing access to?education, improving?economic wellbeing, and ensuring people have the?power?to influence decisions that affect their lives. In all our programming, we address the unique needs of?women and girls(who represent the majority of those displaced)—and the barriers to progress everywhere we work.
Read more on the organization?here.
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