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52 complete course in Crisis Response
Management
Fifty-two Fellows graduated June 27 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 31 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region that attended
the three-week course to study regional security.
Countries represented at the course were: Afghanistan, American
Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Chile, India,
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands,
Mauritius, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of
Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the United States.
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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