Articles
A College for National Security (and Resilience?)
15 June 2021Sir Ian Andrews CBE TD looks at the history to, and prospect for, a national college that helps students and staff to build and develop effective relationships across the public,… Read more
UK Coastal Community Resilience
14 June 2021As an island nation, the UK and its coastal communities face a turbulent future at the hands of climate change. This article looks at some of the challenges ahead. A… Read more
Securing supplies: How to prevent another COVID-19 breakdown
10 June 2021This article first appeared in Foreign and Defence Policy and was written by Elisabeth Braw, Resident Fellow, Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. Key Points The COVID-19 pandemic… Read more
Resilient Reserves
03 June 2021This article offers an independent review of Britain’s reserve military forces and recommends placing them at the heart of national resilience. It was written for the National Preparedness Commission by… Read more
How to future-proof the UK’s approach to risk management
02 June 2021This article for the National Preparedness Commission is by Sam Hilton, Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and the former… Read more
Operational Resilience: applying the lessons of war
21 May 2021This article, written by Gerhard Wheeler, Head of Reserves at Universal Defence and Security Solutions, was first published in the Capco Journal of Financial Transformation. It is published here with… Read more
Electricity – The urgent challenge of improving resilience
13 May 2021This updated article has been written for the National Preparedness Commission by Robin MacLaren, Chair of the Resilience Working Group at the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Society depends… Read more
Five reasons why every organisation needs a resilience champion at board level
12 May 2021This article first appeared on The Resilience Shift website. It was written by Ruth Boumphrey who is Director of Research at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and a Resilience Shift Board member…. Read more
Black, Grey and White Swans
07 May 2021This article first appeared on the Resilience First news website on 3 May 2021. Aon and Pentland Analytics have published a report titled ‘Respecting the Grey Swan’ which details… Read more
Prospects for a civilian reservist cadre
20 April 2021Following the publication of the UK Government’s Integrated Review, Robert Hall, Executive Director of Resilience First and the Programme and Research Co-ordinator for the National Preparedness Commission, considers how the… Read more