Charlie Edwards
Senior Researcher
Charlie Edwards writes, lectures and consults on national security, resilience, defence and intelligence. He works with international institutions, government departments, companies, and NGOs. He is a regular commentator in the national and international media.
"resilience"
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- The Defence contribution to resilience I've been reading UK Military doctrine on resilience. It's aim is to provide the intellectual framework for military operations in the UK in the event of a crisis. Aside from the fact that it weighs in at 300+ pages (who reads this stuff?) it is a comprehensive picture of the military's response. Here's a map I found... from : charlieedwards 17th June 2008
- Resilient Nation This week we're kicking off a new project on resilience. Looking across the spectrum of risks, from floods and pandemics to power failures and terrorism Resilient Nation will explore how communities respond to systemic breakdown. In the aftermath of events such as the Asian tsunami, the London bombings, and the Buncefield explosion new stories and case studies have highlighted how the community's response to emergencies often lies outside the framework of traditional institutions from : charlieedwards 17th June 2008
- Disaster Zones Useful global disaster alert map from by RSOE EDIS, a nonprofit emergency services organization based in Budapest. from : charlieedwards 21st June 2008
- Restoring peace in complex emergencies I'm scraping the net (not to be confused with web scraping) for evidence of how communities respond in complex emergencies and came across IISS on FORA TV. Its long - over an hour but there are some useful insights from the experienced panel. from : charlieedwards 23rd June 2008
- The complexity of the civil protection model Good diagram showing the complexity of the civil protection model from : charlieedwards 24th June 2008
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Where Trust is High, Crime and Corruption are Low
From the Pew Research Centre:
"Trust," political scientist Eric Uslaner has written, "is the chicken soup of social life." Over the last two decades, social scientists have repeatedly suggested that good things tend to happen in societies where people tend to trust each other -- they have stronger democracies, richer economies, better health, and they suffer less often from any number of social ills. from : charlieedwards 30th June 2008 -
Power returns following blackouts
From the BBC:
Electricity supplies have returned to normal following countrywide blackouts on Tuesday, the National Grid has said. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across London, Cheshire, Merseyside and East Anglia lost power. Blackouts were caused by Sizewell B nuclear plant in Suffolk and Longannet coal-fired station in Fife going off-line within minutes of each other. Storms overnight have left some people still without power but operators have said they are working to restore it. from : charlieedwards 4th July 2008 -
Lessons from Australia
Australia has a first class emergency management system but any emergency puts strain on that system. The more that we as individuals can do to prepare ourselves, the more effectively the emergency services can direct their resources.
I'm in Australia next week and will be talking to various people who work in the resilience field. Will report my findings here. from : charlieedwards 18th July 2008 - Self-resilient Society Hopefully, all things being equal, we will be publishing a short draft paper on the self resilient society in September. Watch this space. from : charlieedwards 30th July 2008
- Are we leaving communities behind? Last week I gave a presentation on the Self-resilient society in Melbourne. The talk was hosted by ANZSOG and the Victorian State Services Authority. You can listen to the talk here. from : charlieedwards 30th July 2008