Command Under Attack: Emergency Response to Urban Terrorism | AshCast
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Over the past several years—from Boston in 2013 to Paris in 2015 and London and Barcelona in just the past few months— a number of cities have experienced a spike in deadly terrorist attacks. Collectively, these attacks have taken hundreds of lives, caused serious psychological trauma, and resulted in extensive property loss, while also straining and testing public safety resources and capabilities. On October 11th, Dutch Leonard and Arnold Howitt, Faculty Co-Directors of the Program on Crisis Leadership at HKS, discussed their ongoing research into the terror attacks at an event titled, “Command Under Attack: Emergency Response to Urban Terrorism.” Leonard and Howitt offered specific case examples from several attacks as well as generalizable findings for how other urban centers can prepare for and respond to this threat going forward. This event was sponsored by the Program on Crisis Leadership, which is jointly supported by the Ash Center and Taubman Center; the Crisis Management Professional Interest Council; and by the Homeland Security Project, housed at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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