ISRM - The Institute of Strategic Risk Management - Student Network, London (2026)

27/07/2022

The ISRM & Love Never Fails Cooperation

We are excited to announce that The Institute of Strategic Risk Management included Vanessa Russell, CEO & Founder of Love Never Fails, to Visiting Fellow Program.

Vanessa Russell has developed children in the area of dance, teaching hundreds, ages 3-25, lyrical, flags, hip hop, mime, since 2000. In 2010 one of her 15-year-old dance students was sold into human trafficking. Although she was eventually located and is now being restored, Vanessa encountered many others who, like her student, were US born women, men and children trapped in modern day slavery.

Her response was to launch Love Never Fails, a non-profit dedicated to the restoration, education and protection of those involved or at risk of becoming involved in domestic human trafficking. Love Never Fails has educated thousands of children and community members on the issue of human trafficking, opened four homes that provide long-term safe housing and restorative services for over 176+ women, men, youth and children impacted by human trafficking and launched an IT Academy connecting under-served community members with financially sustainable careers. Vanessa believes that the issue of human trafficking can be solved through love expressed in prayer, safe housing, mentoring, job training, outreach, and education.

Love Never Fails empowers all people to express and experience our best sense of humanity, by restoring, educating, and protecting survivors of human trafficking and their community.

Please visit Love Never Fails Website at https://www.loveneverfailsus.com/, page at https://m.facebook.com/loveneverfailsfanpage or our LinkedIN Page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/loveneverfails

26/07/2022

Houston Chapter - Summer Networking Event

04/08/2022, 16:00 /CST/
Kirby Ice House Memorial, 1015 Gessner Road Houston, TX 77055, US
3 hours

Fellow Professionals: The Houston Chapter would like to invite you to The Institute of Strategic Risk Management summer networking event.

Open to all (you don’t have to be an ISRM member) - It’s a chance to spend time with other professionals living in Houston and surrounding areas from all aspects of security, risk, and crisis management. Meet new people, share stories and experiences with those who haven’t heard your stories yet!

The Houston Chapter is a relatively recent, volunteer-run chapter; therefore, drinks & food (For now) are at your own expense until we can drum up a couple of local sponsors. Please let us know if you'd like to become that sponsor. We would love to discuss the educational and professional benefits it will bring you and your organization nationally and internationally.

We look forward to seeing you there and feel free to bring a friend.

🔄Registration link🔄

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/isrm-summer-networking-event-tickets-387136695277

25/07/2022

ISRM Cyber-Security Special Interest Group

We are excited to announce that The Institute of Strategic Risk Management has created a Cyber-Security Special Interest Group.

This group is designed to offer a platform to anyone who is interested in any aspect of cyber-security, whether from an academic, policy or practitioner perspective. It is open to all as a forum to share thoughts, debate ideas or discuss issues associated with cyber-security in its myriad forms.

Join the LinkedIN Group >>

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12698135

21/07/2022

Global Crisis Watch 193

Europe is in the stranglehold of extreme heat. Temperatures in the UK have exceeded all previous records, the first ever Red Extreme Heat warning was put in place, and thousands of emergency calls were recorded in London. Germany’s Rhine and Italy’s Po River have both worryingly low water levels, with freighters loaded to half their capacity so that they do not run aground and factories having to stop production. Then there is the general water shortage that caused administrations in different regions of Italy, France and Spain to ration it and the general effect it has on crop production. On top of that, there are widespread forest fires, asphalt roads, train tracks and even airport runways melting. Thousands are expected to die from heat related complications: be it dehydration, heat stroke or circulatory collapse.

And yet, if we turn on the TV, there will be programmes that happily announce how that is good weather and that we should all enjoy the sun. Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up”. Climate scientists have been screaming at the top of their lungs for decades that this is what would happen, even if those screams admittedly were printed neatly formated in a size 11 font. Despite their warnings, they have been hearing for years that there have always been hot summers. And that is true. However, these summers were few and far between, while it would be hard to find a summer in the 2010s and 2020s that did not fit that formula. We have been and still live in denial; we are literally becoming the boiling frog in the water, while the issues are ignored again once it has cooled off and the school kids that demonstrate every Friday for a better world are again mocked as just wanting to take Fridays off.

Neither those kids nor we take Fridays off but tackle the important questions and while they do what is really important and fight for the planet, we discuss strategic implications and explain in colorful language why we are doomed. We hope you stay cool and will join us again this week.

Global Crisis Watch 193

Friday, 22th July 10:00 am BST

🔄 Registration link 🔄

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqd-yqqjkqEtE9vDipweLQVhrB3YiKjwgg

20/07/2022

ECPD Endorses The ISRM Global Urban Resilience Programme

We are delighted to announce that European Center for Peace and Development has formally endorsed the ISRM Global Urban Resilience Programme.

About ECPD:

The accomplishments of the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) during its 25 years of activity - and its plans for the coming period - reflect its intellectual mission as set out in the founding acts of the ECPD. Its mission has remained unchanged: to contribute to peace and development in Europe as the area of the ECPD’s activities, and to international cooperation in the transfer of knowledge, by organizing international postgraduate studies (at the specialist, master’s and doctoral levels) and postgraduate professional training and specialization (postgraduate schools, specialist seminars, instructive and other courses) and research in the relevant scientific fields. The ECPD’s guiding principle has always been: through peace to development, through development to peace.

The ECPD has always operated primarily in Europe, at first in its south-eastern part, with an orientation towards the post-socialist countries that is, countries in transition. Nonetheless, in keeping with its program policy, it has increasingly been open for cooperation with the rest of the world.

The basic premise, upon which the ECPD has based its program orientation and strategy, has been that development under conditions of peace is only possible when conceived as human development.

Professor Ljiljana Markovic (Special Advisor to the Executive Director of the ECPD) writes:

The first decades of the 21st century have been marked by a relentless trend of increasingly frequent and intense strategic ‘surprises’. In the conditions of ‘new (crisis) normality’, crisis management has found itself among the most frequently used terms in the global academic community.

Despite the criticality of the impacts and consequences of these events, many of which have been labelled as ’unprecedented’, there has been a failure to developed a shared awareness of the nature of these events, the approaches that we need to take to prepare for them, and a road map that would allow us as a global community to understand and engage with them in meaningful ways. Above all, we are lacking the development of a set of fundamental principles and procedures that would allow us to create shared capabilities based on the insights of both the academic and practitioner experience.

Every aspect of our social fabric is defined by complexity, whether it is the cities we live in, the critical infrastructures we are dependent on, or the almost unimaginably hyper-connected and hyper-dependent systems that rule every aspect of our lives (even if they do so without our awareness or understanding).

18/07/2022

⚠️Spend your August with and further develop your skills 📈💫

We are running our next Level 4 and Level 5 programmes in August – information attached.

We have kept that to the lowest possible price we can to make it as accessible as possible.

▶️ Level 4 Foundation of Security and Risk Management

8th – 12th August

09.00-10.30 BST

Course Information: https://theisrm.org/en/level-4-award-in-foundations-of-security-and-risk-management

Course Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/level-4-award-in-foundations-of-security-risk-management-tickets-327055871917

£160 / €195 / $220 + VAT (25% discount fir ISRM and Corporate Partner Members)

🔄 The Level 4 programme is designed for front-line operators and team leaders who want to have a better understanding of how to do their job in a well-structured and professional manner as well as gaining a first professional qualification.

▶️ Level 5 Corporate Risk and Crisis Management

15th – 19th August

16.00-17.30 BST

Course Information: https://theisrm.org/en/level-5-award-in-corporate-risk-crisis-management

Course Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/l5-award-in-corporate-risk-and-crisis-management-tickets-327059653227

£200 / €240 / $275 + VAT (25% discount fir ISRM and Corporate Partner Members)

🔄 The Level 5 programme is designed for experienced security, risk and business continuity managers who are being given responsibility for the planning, management and implementation of increasingly complex security, risk management, business continuity, emergency response or crisis management projects.

For more details on the ISRM, go to theisrm.org or [email protected]

14/07/2022

Global Crisis Watch 192

Traditionally, summer has been a period of vacation and off-season for most people. Not for the security, risk or crisis managers. For the last two and a half years, there has been constant crisis mode and this summer will be definitely no exception. We all know (or at least we all should be aware) that we live in a VUCA world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, but if often feels as if we are rapidly moving towards a FUBAR world, where everything is f-ed up beyond all repair.

If we just take the news from the last few days, Europe will be hit by a massive heat wave, face a gas crisis and is still affected by COVID. Globally, there is draught, famine, political unrest and massive inflation. Not to mention the war in Ukraine and its global impact or the looming aggression of China against Taiwan. At least the James Webb Space Telescope impressively captured the beauty of Universe and made all problems feel Insignificant in a wider intergalactic context for a couple of minutes.

The question is if our profession and the news cycle has turned us into “doomscrollers”, sensing a crisis behind every little incident and having a narrow view on the world that ignores everything that is not a major incident. We are regularly talking about silos and the problems they bring, but have we siloed our perception to constantly look for the apocalypse?

Undoubtedly, the world has become much more complex during the last decade. Compound crises are becoming more frequent, and the hyper-connectivity of the world has unearthed vulnerabilities and fragility of many current systems. We are witnessing an evolutionary step of the crisis landscape and while there are rapid developments, our response has become reactive. Western systems especially are losing initiative as they try to make sense of long-term issues in short-term electoral cycles.

The one thing that does not lose initiative are the ISRM GLOBAL CRISIS WATCH calls on Friday where we stay ahead of the curve and discuss the issues of today and tomorrow. Join us again this week when we will paint pretty apocalyptic pictures that might not be as stunningly beautiful as those from the Webb telescope, but might help us to keep our sanity for yet another week.

Global Crisis Watch 192

Friday, 15th July, 10:00 am BST

⬇️👇Registration link👇⬇️

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf-6gpzouGNBbRc3ZI8JMZo9ZskS3ilAP

13/07/2022

ISRM Dubai Chapter - Symposium 2022 Report

Thank you to everyone who registered for and/or attended the ISRM Dubai Chapter Symposium!

As expected, it was an event marked by Emirates Group Security’s wonderful hospitality, practitioners and leaders from across the region, and a series of highly insightful presentations on the current situation in Afghanistan and the outlook for potential local and regional developments in the months and years ahead.

Thank you to everyone for your support so far, and we look forward to seeing how the ISRM UAE Chapter can continue to grow and make its contribution to the strategic security, risk and crisis management communities across the region.

11/07/2022

is putting together the July cohort for the Level 6 Diploma programme. If you are looking to explore the academic work and theories that underpins all of modern strategic risk and crisis management, then this could be the programme for you.

Rather than a taught course, it is a guided one – allowing you to explore the areas that are of particular interest and relevance to yourself.

It is a genuinely transformational programme, allowing you to conceptualise, articulate, model and engage with strategic risk management issues in a way that is simply not available to those without the awareness of the academic work.

For a free-to-attend an introductory call to hear more about the course, and ask your own questions, please feel free to register for one of the session below.

Level 6 Diploma Introductory Calls:
(👇⬇️ Registration links: ⬇️👇)

Tuesday, 12th August 10.00 BST

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vd-2pqD0jH9SXNwnbqr8sdZDBa1ABj0cF

Tuesday, 12th August 16.00 BST

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcodeGoqzkrEtACTJT3GnZIoN5IoMSu2RCi

07/07/2022

Another mass shooting shocked the United States on Independence Day, when a shooter fired into the July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois - killing 7 and wounding 46. The 21-year-old perpetrator bought the five AR-15s used in the shooting legally, despite raising several red flags. In total, the weekend of celebrations claimed over 220 dead by gun violence. In what would cause immediate legislative action in any other country, it is just another weekend in the US. Everything but the cause is addressed. After the Uvalde school shooting, an unsecured door was said to have allowed the shooter to enter the school. In Highland Park, it was an unsecured rooftop that enabled the shooter to fire into the parade.

The other major story of the week is the turmoil in UK politics. After several ministers stepped down during the week citing a massive loss of trust in Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister announced this morning that he would resign. Johnson had been a controversial leader throughout most of his time as PM, having been massively criticized for how he handled the Covid-19 pandemic.

The War in Ukraine also rages on with continuing heavy losses on both sides and Russia assuming control over the Donetsk region and stating that they are planning to push further into Ukraine. On the Ukrainian side, a very symbolic victory was achieved, when the Ukrainian flag was raised over Snake Island. The island had become famous early in the war after a small garrison more or less flipped off a Russian war ship.

Finally, the European Union has passed legislation that now classifies gas and nuclear power as sustainable energy, which raises several questions. While gas has fewer emissions than coal, it is still far from clean energy and also has the issue of dependency on producer countries, such as Russia. The sustainability of nuclear power has also been debated. While it is free from emissions, there are unresolved issues of dealing with nuclear waste and possibility of accidents.

As every week, there is so much to discuss, and we are looking forward in seeing you on the call. Everybody is welcome, so please, don’t hesitate to register via link down here and join us tomorrow.

👇Registration link👇

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkc-GqpjwuE9HnIq8m8UF0kz5VdP9508O8

05/07/2022

We are delighted to announce the new ISRM Partnership with Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS), headquartered in Kabul, Afghanistan - an independent research and advocacy centre dedicated to the creation of a sustainable environment that can support peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Since 2006, CAPS has been a leader in civic engagement, conducting action-oriented research aimed at influencing policy-makers in key areas such as state building, governance, narcotics, conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

For more information on CAPS and its activities, please visit caps.af

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