Leiden Crisis Management Research Forum

Leiden Crisis Management Research Forum The Leiden University Crisis Research Center (CRC) studies crisis management in the public sector.

The Leiden University Crisis Research Center (CRC), established in 1989, studies crisis management in the public sector. One of the oldest crisis research centers in Europe, the CRC analyzes how governments prepare for and manage all types of crisis. The Center engages in academic research that aims to explain the origins, patterns and outcomes of crisis management efforts. The center has traditio

nally engaged closely with the world of practice. It aims to reach out to both the academic and expert community interested in the management of crises. We define crises as a “serious threat to the basic structures or the fundamental values and norms of a system, which under time pressure and highly uncertain circumstances necessitates making vital decisions” (Rosenthal, Charles and ‘t Hart, 1989: 10). The nature of crises, the tools of policy makers, the political pressure and the public perception may have changed over time, the classic definition still holds. We view crises as the outcome of a process of accumulation of deficiencies or tensions within a system. We therefore study both the incubation of crises and the governance of safety and security. The CRC embraces a multi-actor and organizational perspective on crisis prevention, management and recovery or enhanced resilience. Within the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, the CRC aims to address critical issues of crisis management such as:
• strategic leadership and the politics of crisis management
• urban safety and metropolitan policing
• networked governance of security events and crisis response
• the challenges of transboundary crises
• the role of new technologies involving citizens in crisis management

07/05/2019
09/02/2019

Conveners: Jeroen Wolbers (Leiden University), Sanneke Kuipers (Leiden University), Kees Boersma (VU University Amsterdam), and Charles Parker (Uppsala University) Abstract: The purpose of this tra…

Recently (November 7), CRC-colleague Wout Broekema defended his PhD thesis, titled "When Does the Phoenix Rise? Factors ...
27/11/2018

Recently (November 7), CRC-colleague Wout Broekema defended his PhD thesis, titled "When Does the Phoenix Rise? Factors and Mechanisms that Influence Crisis-Induced Learning by Public Organizations". It was a pleasure to be part of a great day. Congrats to Dr. Broekema for a job well done!

Nice questions from our students and intriguing discussions on crisis governance with our crisis expert panel, with coll...
16/10/2018

Nice questions from our students and intriguing discussions on crisis governance with our crisis expert panel, with colleague Jeroen Wolbers, and experts Lucas de Lange, Naomi Glaser, Saskia van Rumt, Claire Bakker and Ronald Christiaans, @ Leiden University’s ISGA The Hague

Our chapters (by Arjen Boin, Tim de Jongh and Sanneke Kuipers) on the Dutch legitimacy crisis after the Fortuyn assassin...
17/08/2018

Our chapters (by Arjen Boin, Tim de Jongh and Sanneke Kuipers) on the Dutch legitimacy crisis after the Fortuyn assassination, and one on the coordination and communication struggles in response to the Moerdijk chemical disaster, are now published in this great new book on governing crises in Europe: Societal Security and Crisis Management by Per Laegreid and Lise Hellebø Rykkja (eds). See

This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management from a comparative perspective. It explores cases of crisis management, performance, capacity and legitimacy in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, Norway, and the Netherlands....

On April 19, 2018, Sanneke Kuipers will debate on leadership in future crisis management, at the Swedish Defence Univers...
16/04/2018

On April 19, 2018, Sanneke Kuipers will debate on leadership in future crisis management, at the Swedish Defence University’s Jubilee Symposium in connection with the PUPOL-conference in Stockholm.

She will argue that for transboundary crises strategic leadership is all about asking the right questions regarding preparedness for such contingencies. How can strategic leaders prepare for those crises that have cascading escalation paths and affect different sectors simultaneously or consecutively? How can leaders anticipate and organize response capacity for crises that originate in other organizations, sectors or countries? By scanning their organization and asking the right questions, strategic leaders can assess their own organization’s preparedness.

This argument draws on a new preparedness assessment tool developed within the TRANSCRISIS project, by Arjen Boin et al. See for more information:

Arjen Boin, Lavinia Cadar and Maureen Weller The prospect of transboundary crises forces governments to reassess their crisis management toolbox. In recent

12/12/2017

An update has been created for the research project International Network of Disaster Studies by a researcher on Dec 12, 2017

Arjen Boin delivering his inaugural lecture as professor at Leiden University's Political Science Institute, today in th...
23/10/2017

Arjen Boin delivering his inaugural lecture as professor at Leiden University's Political Science Institute, today in the historic Academy building.

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