Crossings: Applying Research Findings to Cross-Border Security Cooperation

密歇根东南部和安大略省西南部的一个学术研究人员、政府官员和行业领袖团队提议举办一个研讨会，讨论跨境安全合作的文化和制度挑战，以及将灾害管理和组织研究方面的研究成果应用于合作问题。我们注意到，越来越多的灾害是那些没有政治边界，包括国际边界的灾害：其中某些灾害，特别是那些涉及生物危险事件的灾害，可能因边界不同一侧的文化价值观和制度假设（例如：医疗保健的可及性）的差异而变得更加复杂。为了建立一个理解这些问题的研究议程，并应用基础研究的发现，我们建议将来自加拿大和美国的研究人员和灾害管理从业人员聚集在一起，进行为期一天的深入讨论，讨论危机管理中这些新问题带来的挑战，以及当前学术研究提供的解决这些问题的新机会。在学者和从业者之间密集的、人员丰富的讨论范围内，我们将能够确定应用多个项目研究成果的具体机会，并确定加拿大和美国之间未来研究合作的关键领域。讲习班将由加拿大和美国的机构联合主办。对理论和方法的贡献本次研讨会将是一个议程设定研讨会，在美国和加拿大的主要学者以及州、省和市各级的从业者之间就危机管理的应用研究建立共识。它将特别关注模拟和建模的应用，特别是基于代理的合作模型，以改善组织对灾害的反应。广泛的社会影响本次研讨会将把危机管理研究成果的使用者与研究成果的生产者聚集在一起。我们已经确定了许多领域，在这些领域中，研究可以改善实践，在设计训练和场景以改善学习，在实施通信技术以改善协调，以及在改进组织从危机中学习方面，可以在这次研究人员和实践者的重要会议之后迅速实施。

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.