...Since the end of the 19th century there have been unobtrusive, progressive escalations of global crises. With the monumental wars of the 20thcentury mankind, after putting in place institutional mechanisms, thought that the world would experience some measure of respite from crisis. This is not to be as the 21st century, even within its first quarter has witnessed horrendous increase in local, regional and global crises. From communal conflicts to internecine civil strife, to widespread terrorism; much of the capacity of man to confront these challenges has been overstretched. Non state actors have taken up the public space with such vehemence in inflicting harm and suffering that the prospects of combating them seem to multiple their numbers. Added to all these are natural disasters across the globe which farther the unintended consequences. No region of the world is exempted. As it is today, chances are if you watch any TV channel, listen to the radio, read newspapers or magazines, there is news about crises – fire outbreaks, flood disasters, terrorist attacks, kidnapping, explosions, car accidents, plane crash, cholera outbreak, invasions, arm smuggling, ship mishap, political, ethnic and religious violence including others too numerous to mention. The urgency to institutionalize a genuine crisis prevention mind-set instead of just focusing on crisis response is a total priority now! More so, the use of technology to bridge cultures, solve problems, and bring about crises...
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...Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises CRISISOLOGY Charting A Course Through CRISES By Muhammad Sani Isa 1 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises © Muhammad Sani Isa First published 2014 ISBN: 978-978-935-256-2 Published in Nigeria by Society for Safety and Crisis Management Block AO 1, Suite 19, 2 nd Floor, Junction Road, Kaduna All rights reserved. For further enquiries, please contact the author: Tel: +234-8052232004 Email: sscm.ng@gmail.com 2 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises Table of Contents Dedication Attestation Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1. Perspectives on Crisisology 2. Facts about Crises 3. Causes of Crises 4. Classifications of Crises 5. Crisisology As An Academic Discipline 6. Becoming A Crisisologist 7. Crisisology and other Social Sciences 8. Challenges of Crisisology Notes References 5 6 7 9 11 15 27 35 49 65 82 89 96 103 105 3 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises DEDICATION This monograph is dedicated to Hajia Salime, my dear mother; Hafsat, my lovely wife; Yazeed and Yaqeen my precious sons. 4 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises ATTESTATION I, Muhammad Sani Isa do solemnly, firmly and honestly attest to the fact that crises create injuries, illnesses, deaths, property damage, disruption of means of livelihood as well as the environment, etc. Therefore, I can never conceive, plan, finance, promote or personally indulge in the spread of hate messages, killing of fellow human beings, destruction...
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...REVIEW Title: CRISISOLOGY: CHARTING A COURSE THROUGH CRISES Author: Muhammad Sani Isa Reviewed by: Dr Ibraheem Dooba Publisher: Society for Safety & Crisis Management ISBN: 978-978-935-256-2 Description: Everyone can write a book but certainly not a monograph. It’s very likely to see academics with many book titles in their names without a single monograph in a whole life time. A monograph is a specialist work of writing on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, usually by a single author with cogent, convincing and compelling facts and figures written mainly for an academic audience. This monograph is centered on Crisisology as an emerging academic discipline which presumably according to the author escaped the attention of earlier thinkers. In the light of current global crises and the quest for a formidable strategy of effective crisis detection, prevention and management, the author is championing the development of the academic discipline of Crisisology in the Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education, Monotechnics and research institutions. He felt a new approach to crisis, conflict, emergency and disaster management is urgently needed to take us beyond a purely reactive response to that of creating fresh opportunities for improved tools, strategies and education through the study, teaching and practice of Crisisology. To underscore his resolve to lead this new intellectual campaign of pace-setting, Muhammad Sani Isa, the National President...
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...Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises CRISISOLOGY Charting A Course Through CRISES By Muhammad Sani Isa 1 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises © Muhammad Sani Isa First published 2014 ISBN: 978-978-935-256-2 Published in Nigeria by Society for Safety and Crisis Management Block AO 1, Suite 19, 2 nd Floor, Junction Road, Kaduna All rights reserved. For further enquiries, please contact the author: Tel: +234-8052232004 Email: sscm.ng@gmail.com 2 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises Table of Contents Dedication Attestation Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1. Perspectives on Crisisology 2. Facts about Crises 3. Causes of Crises 4. Classifications of Crises 5. Crisisology As An Academic Discipline 6. Becoming A Crisisologist 7. Crisisology and other Social Sciences 8. Challenges of Crisisology Notes References 5 6 7 9 11 15 27 35 49 65 82 89 96 103 105 3 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises DEDICATION This monograph is dedicated to Hajia Salime, my dear mother; Hafsat, my lovely wife; Yazeed and Yaqeen my precious sons. 4 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises ATTESTATION I, Muhammad Sani Isa do solemnly, firmly and honestly attest to the fact that crises create injuries, illnesses, deaths, property damage, disruption of means of livelihood as well as the environment, etc. Therefore, I can never conceive, plan, finance, promote or personally indulge in the spread of hate messages, killing of fellow human beings, destruction...
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...PERSPECTIVE ON CRISISOLOGY (A Brief Commentary) By MUHAMMAD SANI ISA Abstract They are number of words in the dictionary whose meanings are self-expressive. One of such is the word crisis. By the virtue of its phonology and perceptual disruptive characteristics, it needs no introduction. However, over the years, men and women both educated and uneducated have become victims on a number of reasonable and unreasonable grounds ranging from acts of God, ignorance, materialism, human error and as well as unsafe acts, lack of standard of operations, government decisions/indecisions. As it is world-wide, crisis has assumed the right of occupancy in the affairs of mankind, making it extremely imperative for us to critically and objectively explore, expand and to deepen our understanding about its triggers, escalations, life-cycle, dimensions and including every conceivable aspects of crisis through education, sensitisation and conscientisation on the platform of Crisisology. Key words: crisis, emergency, disruption, management and Crisisology Crisis is the occasion of pain, injuries, illnesses, disabilities, deaths, and property damages. It disrupts means of livelihood and unleashes other undesirable consequences to lives and the environments that threaten growth, development and communal survival. Crises are inevitable. No individual, organisation or society is immuned from it. A crisis is one of the purest forms of global equality – blind to race, culture, religion, occupation...
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...Harvard Business Review On Crisis Management ... Managing Crisis You Tried to Prevent Norman R. Augustine Originally published in November – December 1995 Reprint # 95602 A Harvard Business Review Paperback Managing the Crisis You Tried to Prevent Managing the Crisis You Tried to Prevent Norman R. Augustine Executive Summary NEWS REPORTS ANNOUNCING that yet another business has stumbled into a crisis—often without warning and through no direct fault of its management— seem as regular as the tide. And the spectrum of business crises is so wide that it is impossible to list each type. On a single day this year, the Washington Post reported a series of crashes suffered by American Eagle Airlines, the bankruptcy of Orange County, and Intel’s travails with its Pentium microprocessor. Other noteworthy crises have been the Challenger space shuttle explosion, the “incident” at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, and the series of deaths resulting from cyanide adulteration of Tylenol capsules. Fortunately, argues Norman Augustine, almost every crisis contains within itself the seeds of success as well as the roots of failure. Finding, cultivating, and harvesting that potential success is the essence of crisis management. And the essence of crisis mismanagement is the propensity to take a bad situation and make it worse. Augustine has distinguished six stages of crisis management and makes recommendations for dealing with each: avoiding the crisis...
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