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60 complete course in Crisis Response
Management
Sixty Fellows graduated February 22 from the Asia-Pacific Center for
Security Studies “Comprehensive Crisis Response Management:
Preventing, Preparing, and Responding Course” in Honolulu.
The Comprehensive Crisis Management: Preventing, Preparing and
Responding course takes a comprehensive approach CCM operations and
activities. Course content focuses on three broad topic areas: (1)
crisis assessments and condition-setting, (2) transitions across the
prevent-prepare-respond cycle and (3) during- and post-crisis
reconstruction. In addition to this conceptual framework, the CCM
course also addresses CCM-task coalition building and operations,
inter-agency coordination, stability trends analysis, preventive
activities as well as international interventions, post-emergency
reconstruction, transition shaping, and strategic communications.
The course curriculum is generally divided into three major blocks:
(1) framing the CCM problem, (2) elements of stability and, (3)
making collaborative CCM operations work.
The Fellows represented military and civilian government leaders
from 27 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region that attended
the three-week course to study regional security.
Countries represented at the course were: Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Brunei, Cambodia, Comoros, Cook Islands, India, Indonesia, Kenya,
Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Micronesia,
Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, United States and Vietnam.
To date, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies has had
representatives from 45 countries attend the College and has hosted
or co-hosted conferences/seminars with 7,200+ participants from 72
countries.
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APCSS addresses regional and global security issues, inviting military and
civilian representatives of the United States and 45 Asia-Pacific nations to
its comprehensive program of courses and conferences, both in Hawaii and
throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The Center supports the U.S. Pacific
Command’s objective of developing professional and personal ties among
national security establishments throughout the region. APCSS focuses on
a multilateral and multi-dimensional approach to defining and addressing
regional security issues and concerns. The most beneficial result is
building relationships of trust and confidence among future leaders and
decision-makers within the region.
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