Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses: Reforming Leadership in the Age of Catastrophic Crises and Hypercomplexity

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Since the 1990s, unconventional catastrophic, or unusually complex crises such as 9/11, Katrina, the 2004 Tsunami, or the 2003 heatwave, have challenged or even overwhelmed traditional mechanisms for planning, response, and recovery. This book, the result of a seminar convened at SAIS in 2007 under the leadership of Dr. Erwan Lagadec, lays our diagnoses of current deficiencies, and proposals for reform. It examines the meaning of leadership in major crises, the sources of institutional and cultural reluctance to anticipating unconventional events, mechanisms for a "holistic" approach to resiliency, challenges involved in drawing a new "Social Compact" for cross-sector, international coordination, the value of "resource-based planning", and emerging models of unconventional crisis management cells.