Swedish National Defence College

About: Swedish National Defence College is a education organization based out in Stockholm, Sweden. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Crisis management & European union. The organization has 218 authors who have published 569 publications receiving 8074 citations.

Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean: The Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction

Abstract: This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of resilience through the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes in Pacific and Caribbean island states. Global efforts to strengthen local disaster resilience capacities have become a staple of international development activity in recent decades, yet the successful implementation of DRR projects designed to strengthen local resilience remains elusive. While there are pockets of success, a gap remains between global expectations and local realities. Through a critical realist study of global and local worldviews of resilience in the Pacific and Caribbean islands, this book argues that the global advocacy of DRR remains inadequate because of a failure to prioritise a person-orientated ethics in its conceptualization of disaster resilience. This regional comparison provides a valuable lens to understand the underlying social structures that makes resilience possible and the extent to which local governments, communities and persons interpret and modify their behaviour on risk when faced with the global message on resilience. This book will be of much interest to students of resilience, risk management, development studies, and area studies.

A Microworld Study of Task Force Commanders Executing a Maritime Escort Mission

Abstract: This paper presents an exploratory microworld study with the aim to identify individual dierences between participants, and relate those dierence to how well the participant solves the task. Six oc ...

A systems approach to stealth on the ground revisited

Abstract: This new security development is expected to increase interest fromNorthern European states in supporting the development of conceptually newstealthy ground platforms, incorporating a decade of adv ...

Military Culture and the Challenge of Ambidexterity in Complex Operations

Abstract: In recent decades, military organizations have deployed much more extensively in nonconventional operations. Army units are deployed as peacekeepers, navy vessels engage with migration control and search and rescue (SAR) operations and the air force delivers humanitarian aid. Do recent trends imply that the military is switching to new kinds of core tasks, including but not limited to what Janowitz referred to as ancillary tasks? This chapter argues that even though the kinds of tasks have multiplied, it is very slow and inertial to shift from a focus on combat core tasks to multiple tasks. In other words, the military is torn between its classical skills—which form the core of military cultures—and the requirements of ambidexterity.

Changes over time in the importance patients ascribe to different aspects of care: on the need to improve person-centeredness

Abstract: Rational and aim: Knowledge of which aspects of care are more important to patients is crucial for health providers The aim of the work presented here was to explore changes over time in patients’ preferences in hospital and in out-patient settingsMethod: Cross-sectional data were collected among patients at a number of Swedish hospital wards and out-patient clinics in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008 (N = 46,525) Data for men and women were analysed separately The main outcome measure consisted of replies to the questionnaire “Quality from the Patient’s Perspective” (QPP) (numerous references)Results: (1) Subjective importance (preference) ratings increased throughout the time period studied, (2) in-patients gave higher ratings than out-patients and (3) women gave higher ratings than men, particularly in out-patient settingsConclusion: The increase over time in ratings of the importance ascribed to different aspects of care may reflect a general trend towards strengthened consciousness among citizens as consumers of care and is an important index for improving the person-centeredness of clinical services