报告题目：Emergency Response to Terrorist Attack: Lessons from Boston and Paris

报告摘要：The “no notice” terrorist attacks that struck Boston in 2013 and Paris in 2015 posed severe challenges for emergency response leaders and teams, including police investigative and SWAT units, firefighters, EMTs and paramedics, hospital trauma teams, and military units. These challenges included the need for emergency capacity far beyond normal bounds, intensive inter-organizational coordination under severe pressure, the need for a strategic management structure cutting across the engaged response institutions, and ongoing difficulties establishing situational awareness. Based on extensive interviews with leaders of these responders in both cities, Dr. Howitt will present suggest lessons about preparing for and implementing response that may prove useful to other cities subject to similar attacks by terrorist groups.

报告人简介：Arnold M. Howitt is Executive Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also Faculty Co-Director of the Program on Crisis Leadership, which conducts research, executive education programs, and action projects. At Harvard, Dr. Howitt has been deeply involved in executive education programs for senior government officials. For China, he has co-chaired the national “China’s Leaders in Development” program and separate programs for the Shanghai and Beijing municipal governments and for five northwest China provincial governments. For US officials, he chairs or co-chairs “Leadership in Crises,” “Leadership for New State Health Directors,” the “Generals and Flag Officers Homeland Security Executive Seminar,” and “Leadership in Homeland Security,” and co-founded and has taught in “Crisis Leadership for Higher Education” and the “National Preparedness Leadership Initiative.”

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