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The Role of Industry in Sweden’s Total Defence: Past, Present, and Future
21 February 2023This article by Pär Malmberg, Jan Ottosson, Martin Eriksson, and Olle Jansson discusses Sweden’s work with industry as part of its total defence concept and whole-of-society approach to national preparedness…. Read more
In Conversation With: NPC Commissioner Elisabeth Braw
16 February 2023In the first of a series of interviews with NPC Commissioners, Elisabeth Braw joins NPC Exec Director Katie Barnes to explore grey-zone aggression techniques and the importance of encouraging citizens… Read more
The UK’s new national resilience framework establishes an important footing, but does it sidestep the hard questions?
03 February 2023The UK’s national resilience framework has now been published. In this article, Richard Smith-Bingham, Executive Director, Marsh McLennan Advantage, explores key strengths of the framework as well as some important… Read more
International Models of Emergency Management Involving Civil Society
02 February 2023The National Preparedness Commission commissioned an 18 month research programme entitled ‘Towards a Resilient Democracy’, funded by the JRSST Charitable Trust. The fourth in a series of reports by Dr… Read more
British Red Cross Research on Flooding in the UK
19 January 2023Imagine a nation that is perfectly prepared for flooding. What does the social contract between government and citizen look like in this scenario? Broadly, we might imagine that on one… Read more
Preparedness efforts for health threats: the gap between detection and action
11 January 2023The World Health Organisation (WHO) was highly criticised for its delay in declaring Covid-19 as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) via social media and a public investigation,… Read more
Anticipatory Reasoning: The Role of Data in National Preparedness
03 January 2023Back in September 2022, NPC published a paper by Professor John Beckford on “A Systemic Perspective on National Preparedness”, which identified a set of themes to be explored in a… Read more
Is this the Yellow Brick Road?
23 December 2022Just before Parliament rose for the Christmas Recess, the long-awaited UK Government Resilience Framework was quietly published via a Written Ministerial Statement on 19th December. The UKGRF is the resilience… Read more
Elephant in the Room
15 December 2022The National Preparedness Commission and the BCS IT Leaders Forum, a Specialist Group from BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) held a Roundtable chaired by NPC Chair, Lord Toby Harris,… Read more
Dame Jo da Silva 2022 RDI Address on Building Resilient Cities and Communities
09 December 2022On 18th November 2022, NPC Commissioner Dame Jo da Silva RDI gave the 2022 RDI Address. Her talk (reposted here with kind permission) focuses on her personal journey and growing… Read more