Course description
The aim of this module is to examine the concepts of risk, crisis and resilience. This module will make students assess the meaning of resilience through examining the concepts of risk and crisis. Risk and crisis management practices will be explored and debated in the context of their application as contemporary decision-making framework specifically in the field of security.
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What you will learn
On successful completion of the course you will be able to:
- Introduce systems theory and its relevance to risk, crises and resilience,
- Review the multifaceted meaning of the resilience concept and describe its key components and discuss its origins and evolution,
- Discuss key elements of risk theories,
- Appraise the significance of crises in the context of how they affect people and communities,
- Identify the organisational structures and individual skills and knowledge necessary to manage crises effectively,
- Describe, distinguish risk and crisis management tools, processes, and frameworks, and critically evaluate them,
- Examine risk and crisis communication, politics of decision-making, human factors in decision-making, paradoxes with perception and uncertainty,
- Analyse the contemporary applicability of risk in a resilience strategy,
- Critically evaluate the implementation approaches and consider the politics of resilience.
Training Course Content
Core content
- Risk as concept and risk theory,
- Risk management tools and risk management methodology,
- RM cycle and assessment,
- Risk as contemporary decision-making paradigm and challenges to the risk management paradigm,
- Complex adaptive systems and resilience thinking,
- Components of the implementation approaches to resilience strategies,
- Crisis management evolution of the discipline and debates,
- Business continuity planning,
- Case-studies and activities.
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