...Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises CRISISOLOGY Charting A Course Through CRISES By Muhammad Sani Isa 1 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises © Muhammad Sani Isa First published 2014 ISBN: 978-978-935-256-2 Published in Nigeria by Society for Safety and Crisis Management Block AO 1, Suite 19, 2 nd Floor, Junction Road, Kaduna All rights reserved. For further enquiries, please contact the author: Tel: +234-8052232004 Email: sscm.ng@gmail.com 2 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises Table of Contents Dedication Attestation Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1. Perspectives on Crisisology 2. Facts about Crises 3. Causes of Crises 4. Classifications of Crises 5. Crisisology As An Academic Discipline 6. Becoming A Crisisologist 7. Crisisology and other Social Sciences 8. Challenges of Crisisology Notes References 5 6 7 9 11 15 27 35 49 65 82 89 96 103 105 3 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises DEDICATION This monograph is dedicated to Hajia Salime, my dear mother; Hafsat, my lovely wife; Yazeed and Yaqeen my precious sons. 4 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises ATTESTATION I, Muhammad Sani Isa do solemnly, firmly and honestly attest to the fact that crises create injuries, illnesses, deaths, property damage, disruption of means of livelihood as well as the environment, etc. Therefore, I can never conceive, plan, finance, promote or personally indulge in the spread of hate messages, killing of fellow human beings, destruction...
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...Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises CRISISOLOGY Charting A Course Through CRISES By Muhammad Sani Isa 1 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises © Muhammad Sani Isa First published 2014 ISBN: 978-978-935-256-2 Published in Nigeria by Society for Safety and Crisis Management Block AO 1, Suite 19, 2 nd Floor, Junction Road, Kaduna All rights reserved. For further enquiries, please contact the author: Tel: +234-8052232004 Email: sscm.ng@gmail.com 2 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises Table of Contents Dedication Attestation Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1. Perspectives on Crisisology 2. Facts about Crises 3. Causes of Crises 4. Classifications of Crises 5. Crisisology As An Academic Discipline 6. Becoming A Crisisologist 7. Crisisology and other Social Sciences 8. Challenges of Crisisology Notes References 5 6 7 9 11 15 27 35 49 65 82 89 96 103 105 3 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises DEDICATION This monograph is dedicated to Hajia Salime, my dear mother; Hafsat, my lovely wife; Yazeed and Yaqeen my precious sons. 4 Crisisology: Charting A Course Through Crises ATTESTATION I, Muhammad Sani Isa do solemnly, firmly and honestly attest to the fact that crises create injuries, illnesses, deaths, property damage, disruption of means of livelihood as well as the environment, etc. Therefore, I can never conceive, plan, finance, promote or personally indulge in the spread of hate messages, killing of fellow human beings, destruction...
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...diverse, ranging from crime to religion, from the family to the state, from the divisions of race and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture, and from social stability to radical change in whole societies. Unifying the study of these diverse subjects of study is sociology's purpose of understanding how human action and consciousness both shape and are shaped by surrounding cultural and social structures. Sociology offers a distinctive and enlightening way of seeing and understanding the social world in which we live and which shapes our lives. It looks beyond normal, taken-for-granted views of reality, to provide deeper, more illuminating and challenging understandings of social life. Through its particular analytical perspective, social theories, and research methods, sociology is a discipline that expands our awareness and analysis of...
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...REVIEW Title: CRISISOLOGY: CHARTING A COURSE THROUGH CRISES Author: Muhammad Sani Isa Reviewed by: Dr Ibraheem Dooba Publisher: Society for Safety & Crisis Management ISBN: 978-978-935-256-2 Description: Everyone can write a book but certainly not a monograph. It’s very likely to see academics with many book titles in their names without a single monograph in a whole life time. A monograph is a specialist work of writing on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, usually by a single author with cogent, convincing and compelling facts and figures written mainly for an academic audience. This monograph is centered on Crisisology as an emerging academic discipline which presumably according to the author escaped the attention of earlier thinkers. In the light of current global crises and the quest for a formidable strategy of effective crisis detection, prevention and management, the author is championing the development of the academic discipline of Crisisology in the Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education, Monotechnics and research institutions. He felt a new approach to crisis, conflict, emergency and disaster management is urgently needed to take us beyond a purely reactive response to that of creating fresh opportunities for improved tools, strategies and education through the study, teaching and practice of Crisisology. To underscore his resolve to lead this new intellectual campaign of pace-setting, Muhammad Sani Isa, the National President...
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...non-physical crises. Crises are caused by many factors and the consequences are independent of any socio-geographical variables. A crisis is a crucial or decisive point or situation; an unstable condition as in political, social or economic affairs involving an impending abrupt or decisive change; a sudden change in the cause of a disease or fever toward either improvement or deterioration; an emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person’s life; a point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved. Crises generally are about victims, perceived victims or people who are affected by what happened. When we are not sufficiently educated or informed about the new trends and best practices in Crisisology, there is predisposition that: 1. Faced with a crisis, we feel frightened, confused, angry and helpless; 2. Judgment may be affected, sometimes creating a tendency to consider ideas that would normally be dismissed; 3. Individual’s personality trait becomes exaggerated (for example, an anxious person becomes very anxious); 4. A siege mentality sets in with those in charge withdrawing, doing nothing, saying nothing and becoming inert; 5. The search begins for a scapegoat; 6. Instability sets in and decision makers may not adopt the latest opinions they have heard; and 7. Government or management turns defensive, declaring in reflex “everything is under control”. 8. A crisis presents real or potential negative outcomes...
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...Harvard Business Review On Crisis Management ... Managing Crisis You Tried to Prevent Norman R. Augustine Originally published in November – December 1995 Reprint # 95602 A Harvard Business Review Paperback Managing the Crisis You Tried to Prevent Managing the Crisis You Tried to Prevent Norman R. Augustine Executive Summary NEWS REPORTS ANNOUNCING that yet another business has stumbled into a crisis—often without warning and through no direct fault of its management— seem as regular as the tide. And the spectrum of business crises is so wide that it is impossible to list each type. On a single day this year, the Washington Post reported a series of crashes suffered by American Eagle Airlines, the bankruptcy of Orange County, and Intel’s travails with its Pentium microprocessor. Other noteworthy crises have been the Challenger space shuttle explosion, the “incident” at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, and the series of deaths resulting from cyanide adulteration of Tylenol capsules. Fortunately, argues Norman Augustine, almost every crisis contains within itself the seeds of success as well as the roots of failure. Finding, cultivating, and harvesting that potential success is the essence of crisis management. And the essence of crisis mismanagement is the propensity to take a bad situation and make it worse. Augustine has distinguished six stages of crisis management and makes recommendations for dealing with each: avoiding the crisis...
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