Crossings: Applying Research Findings to Cross-Border Security Cooperation

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Workshop Proposal:Crossings: Applying Research Findings toCross-Border Security CooperationAbstractA team of academic researchers, public officials, and industry leaders in southeastern Michiganand southwestern Ontario propose to conduct a workshop on the cultural and institutionalchallenges of cross-border security cooperation, and the application of research findings indisaster management and organization research to issues of cooperation. We observe that agrowing class of disasters are those that observe no political boundaries, including internationalfrontiers: certain of these, particularly those involving biohazardous events, can be compoundedby the differences in cultural values and institutional assumptions (for example: accessibility ofhealth care) on different sides of a border.To create a research agenda for understanding these issues, and for applying the findings of basicresearch, we propose to bring together researchers and disaster management practitioners fromboth Canada and the United States for an intensive, one-day discussion of the challenges posed bythese new problems in crisis management and the new opportunities for solving them afforded bycurrent academic research. In the scope of an intensive, well-staffed discussion betweenacademics and practitioners, we will be able to identify specific opportunities for applying theresearch results of multiple projects, and to identify critical areas for future research collaborationbetween Canada and the United States.The workshop will be jointly sponsored by institutions in Canada and the United States.Contributions to Theory and MethodThis workshop will be an agenda-setting workshop, building a consensus among leadingacademics in the United States and Canada, and practitioners at the state, provincial, andmunicipal levels, for applied research in crisis management. It will give particular focus to theapplication of simulations and modeling, particularly agent-based models of cooperation, toissues of improving organizations' response to disasters.Broad Social ImpactThis workshop will bring together the users of crisis management research findings with theproducers of that research. Numerous areas that we have already identified where research couldimprove practice in the design of drills and scenarios for improved learning, in theimplementation of communication technologies for improved coordination, and in theimprovement of organizational learning from crises can be quickly implemented following thisimportant meeting of researchers and practitioners.