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The Role of Industry in Sweden’s Total Defence: Past, Present, and Future

This 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

In 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?

The 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

The 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

Imagine 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

The 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

Back 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?

Just 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

The 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

On 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