Crossings: Applying Research Findings to Cross-Border Security Cooperation

研讨会建议：交叉：将研究成果应用于跨境安全合作摘要密歇根州东南部和安大略省西南部的一个由学术研究人员、公共官员和行业领袖组成的团队提议举办一次研讨会，主题是跨境安全合作的文化和体制挑战，以及将灾害管理和组织研究中的研究成果应用于合作问题。我们观察到，日益严重的灾难是那些没有政治边界的灾难，包括国际边界：其中某些灾难，特别是涉及生物危险事件的灾难，可能会因为边界不同一侧的文化价值观和制度假设(例如：医疗保健的可获得性)的差异而变得更加复杂。为了创建一个研究议程，以了解这些问题，并应用基础研究的结果，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者聚集在一起，进行为期一天的密集讨论，讨论危机管理中这些新问题带来的挑战，以及当前学术研究为解决这些问题提供的新机遇。在学者和实践者之间密集、人员齐全的讨论范围内，我们将能够确定应用多个项目的研究结果的具体机会，并确定加拿大和美国未来研究合作的关键领域。研讨会将由加拿大和美国的机构联合主办。理论和方法贡献本研讨会将是一个议程设置研讨会，在美国和加拿大的主要学者以及州、省和市各级的实践者之间建立在危机管理应用研究方面的共识。它将特别关注模拟和建模的应用，特别是基于主体的合作模型，以改善组织对灾害的反应。广泛的社会影响本研讨会将把危机管理研究成果的使用者和该研究的生产者聚集在一起。在研究人员和从业人员举行重要会议之后，我们已经确定的许多领域的研究可以改进以下方面的做法：改进学习的演习和情景的设计；改进协调的通信技术的实施；以及从危机中改进组织的学习。

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.