Disaster Management & Response
Mr. Krishna Bahadur Raut Receives the 2021 ‘Alumni of the Year’ Award
Mr. Krishna Bahadur Raut, received the 2021 DKI APCSS Alumni of the Year award for completing his Fellows Project titled, “Expansion of Emergency Operations in Nepal.” DKI APCSS recognized Raut’s contributions as an alumnus who significantly improved the peace and security within his...
NESA-USAFRICOM “North Africa Senior Leaders Workshop”
The Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, in partnership with U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), conducted a“North Africa Senior Leaders Workshop”from 7–14 September 2022 in Washington, DC, ending the 2022 NESA-AFRICOM Workshop Series. The focus of the Workshop was on the...
New paper on women’s role in disaster management and its implications for national security
Why women in Asia-Pacific countries are more susceptible to disaster impacts? This topic is explored in a new paper by DKI APCSS professor Jessica Ear on “Women’s Role in Disaster Management and Implications for National Security.” Her paper examines societal roles that create greater...
New Website Unveiled for Disaster Management Organization
The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance is proud to announce the launch of its new website www.cfe-dmha.org March 17. The site will serve as a platform for synchronization of humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) tools and research,...
SARS-COV-2 Mutations, Variants, and National Security
“SARS-COV-2 Mutations, Variants, and National Security,” is the title of a paper by Dr. Deon Canyon, Dr. Sebastian Kevany and retired Rear Adm. Michael S. Baker forSecurity Nexus. This article explains how COVID-19 mutations emerge, and how governments would be potentially remiss in turning...
Security Perspectives on leadership and COVID-19
We have two new Security Nexus Perspectives written by Dr. Deon Canyon. One is titled "Strategic Crisis Leadership in COVID-19" and the other is "The Battle of Sense-making and Meaning-Making During the COVID-19 Crisis". You can find Security Nexus Perspectives the online at: https://...
South Asia Risk Reduction Workshop Report Shared at UN Conference
After a workshop is complete there is always a question of what’s next? What will happen with this information? Recently, findings from one workshop were shared at a United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. Associate Professor Jessica Ear represented the Asia-Pacific...
Symposium highlight’s chaplains’ roles in disaster response
Exploring the role of religious support in disaster response missions, 55 military chaplains from seven nations gathered at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies July 8. The “RIMPAC HA/DR and Chaplaincy Symposium,” conducted jointly by DKI APCSS and the U.S. Navy’s...
Tropical Cyclone Harold and COVID-19: Lessons from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
“Tropical Cyclone Harold and COVID-19: Lessons from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake” is a new paper authored by Dr. Ethan Allen for Security Nexus. In this paper, Allen states that “Recently, Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold tracked across Tonga, Fiji, and Vanuatu. Vanuatu was hardest hit, as the...
U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Dialogues with Oceania Subject Matter Experts
In preparation for his upcoming travel to the region, Admiral Sam Paparo, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited the Center to engage in a roundtable discussion with Oceania subject matter experts. The participants represented premier experts from three organizations located on Oahu: DKI APCSS...
Understanding Drivers of Regional Security Ensures Safer Humanitarian Response Operations
Professor Jessica Ear presented a talk on drivers of regional security at the second session of the Humanitarian Civil-Military Regional Consultative Group meeting in Bangkok, Thailand on 11-12 October, 2016. A summary of her presentation follows. It is often cited that Asia-Pacific is the...
USAFRICOM Commander Says Improving African Food Security Will Boost National Security
View Photos From This Event. The U.S. military recognizes that access to food and national security are “inextricably linked” in the Horn of Africa, said General Carter Ham, Commander of U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), during a food security conference held at National Defense...
Working through complexity: Fellows learn critical thinking approach to crisis management
Managing disasters or crises presents challenges that are anything but simple. A host of involved government and nongovernment actors, impacted populations that are often ethnically, politically and cultural diverse, and myriad interconnected processes can make planning, response and...