Program 21 - 23 September

- Preparing for the unexpected: A comparative study of policy responses addressing post-terror health reactions in Norway and France
- Psychosocial care to civilians affected by terrorist attacks in Norway (2011), France (2015), Belgium (2016), and the Netherlands (2019)
- Network professionalism: the interplay between professional work and network viability
- A closer look at evaluation challenges in post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support

This session has been cancelled.

- Gender in disaster risk reduction before a disaster: case studies from Fukuoka, Japan
- Women's invisible work in disaster contexts: Gender norms in speech on women's work after a forest fire in Sweden
- Gender difference in risk perception of public health crisis
- Oil, Religion, Manuel and Emergency Management: about 7 exercises showing that difference matters
- Expressions of gender – in a mono gendered setting 

- Of Critical Importance: Toward a quantitative probabilistic risk assessment framework for critical infrastructure
- Why states are not keeping us safe in the long run: the theory and practice of preventing future societal destabalization

- Monitoring population needs and wellbeing using panel studies
- The psychological impact of COVID-19 in Italy through the voices of experts
- Personal resilience: measuring psychological and biological stress during military conscription in the period of COVID-19 outbreak

- Framing justice considerations within flood risk management
- Local innovations in flood hazard risk management in the past 10 years: the potential of upscaling niche developments to reduce institutional vulnerability in Austria
- Flash flood risk management in Malloa (Central Chile) during the 29-31 January 2021 precipitations: insights on social and institutional vulnerabilities
- An institutional vulnerability perspective on Flood Disaster Risk Management in Ghana
- Hazard classification and flood risk for the Greek part of Arda River

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. She is an anthropologist of politics and law whose work has focused on ethnic conflict and displacement, border practices, post-conflict reconciliation, and contested sovereignty on both sides of the Cyprus Green Line, as well as in Turkey. Temporality has been a theme throughout all of her research, whether in her writings on the politics of the past and historical reconciliation or, more recently, on the temporal “stuckness” of citizens of unrecognized states.
Nick Wiltsher is a philosopher, working as an associate senior lecturer at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Professor Ben Anderson is a cultural-political geographer at Durham University, UK. Throughout his empirical work, he is concerned with how futures are encountered, related to, and made present through ordinary affects, including hope and boredom.
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt is an associate professor of Japanese modern literature at Nagoya University, Japan, whose work has focused on geographies of marginality and marginalization in contemporary Japanese literature.

- Knowledge Management – The Thing from Another World?
- Sustainable advanced learning in managing and communicating disaster risk by social media and crowd sourcing

- Republican theory and the EU: Emergency Laws and Constitutional Challenges
- Does necessity know the constitution? Constitutional powers in civilian crises 
- But will it happen? Perception of Future Risks by Politicians in the German Bundestag (Parliament)
-Addressing Economic State of Emergency in the EU: the Analysis of the Economic Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic

- Scenario Analysis as a Method in Legal Science
- Pandemic preparedness and response in human rights-based multi-level governance perspective: Insights from four municipalities in Zimbabwe 
-Different Language, Different Law? An Analysis of Key Concepts used in Swedish and EU Crisis Management Legislation 

- Methodology, Objectivity and Cultural Specificity in Multimethod Disaster Studies: Insights from the 2017 Bihar Floods Study
- Causal modelling of knowing how to prepare: A concept for a ‘strategic Bayesian operations room’ exercise
- How to get a feel for the (unknown) real? – Emergency exercises and the production of synthetic experience

- Crisis-as-practice: Conceptualizing the role of everyday work practices in crisis management
- I became TRANS, how about you. - On transdisciplinarity and opening windows
- Designing Immersive Simulation Exercises: Evidence from an Experimental Study

- The Spectrum of Practices for Social Media Listening for Crisis Management
- Cultural asset mapping: building networks among cultural stewards and emergency managers
- The application of Capability Based Planning for emergency and disaster management needs

- Emergency Response Organization Resilience: Identifying Factors for Success
- Coordinating internal crisis management in the event of a serious incident - Strategic level in higher education institutions
- Learning by doing and reflecting – the learning process of Swedish exercise organizers
- Enhancing risk governance by addressing key risk communication barriers during the prevention and preparedness phase in South Tyrol (Italy)

Jerry Määttä, Jenny Sunesson, Mehreen Murtaza and Todd Lowery – all four combining art and academia – discuss topics such as how art can contribute to the way we understand and imagine the future.
Conference closing session 17.00-17.30 Jörgen Sparf and Rico Kongsager

- Displacement: uprooting, survival and perspectives
- Cannibalizing Utopia: Suzanne Césaire’s Ecofeminist critique of Colonial Discourse of the Tropics

- When invasiveness manifests: the zebra mussel and its implications for conflict management and planning practices
- Decolonizing Disaster Preparedness in the Caribbean: The Role of Non-Sovereign Territories and Efforts at Regional Cooperation
- Counting on Crisis: planning and preparing disaster relief interventions in Malawi
- Rebuilding the Future: Disaster Anticipation and Recovery Planning in Vancouver, Canada
- Planning for multiple disasters along West African borders: between standardisation and localisation

RCR Simulation Lab is a laboratory at Mid Sweden University in Östersund where it is possible to simulate any environment or situation.

RCR Simulation Lab is a laboratory at Mid Sweden University in Östersund where it is possible to simulate any environment or situation.