**July 5-7, 2005 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CASE STUDIES IN RISK AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT \-- TEXTBOOK
DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT:

July 5, 2005 \-- Received, reviewed, and approved 2nd draft of Chapter
5, \"Recovery,\" by George Haddow, George Washington University \--
forwarded to the EMI Webmaster for upload to the Project website \--
Free College Courses and Books section \-- where it should be accessible
shortly.

July 6, 2005 \-- Received for review Chapter 6, \"Communications,\" by
George Haddow.

\(2\) COASTAL HAZARDS MANAGEMENT \-- GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSE DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT:

July 5, 2005 \-- Reviewed and approved Session 34, \"State Policy II,\"
by Anna K. Schwab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From
session Scope

statement:

\"Session 34 continues the discussion of state coastal policy begun in
Session 33. Session 34 will cover state coastal management programs
under the Coastal Zone Management Act, as well as state emergency
management programs (including state hazard mitigation plans).\"

July 6, 2005 \-- Reviewed and approved Session 25, \"Presentations of
Midterm Papers and Class Discussion,\" by Anna Schwab. From session
Scope statement:

\"Session 25 is designed to allow the students to reflect upon the
knowledge they have gained during the Coastal Hazards Management course
thus far, and to compose an essay that summarizes this knowledge. This
session will also involve class discussion of some of the issues raised
in student papers.\"

Reviewed and approved 3rd draft of Session 24, \"Mitigation Defined,\"
by lead course developer, Professor David Brower, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Also reviewed and approved 2nd draft of Session 13, \"Governance of the

Coast: Institutions, Policy, Jurisdictions,\" by Professor Brower.

July 7, 2005 \-- Reviewed and approved 3rd draft of Session 28,
\"Federal Policy I: The Role of Federal Policy; National Environmental
Policy Act; Clean Water Act,\" by Professor Brower.

Also reviewed and approved 2nd draft of Session 31, \"FEMA Programs I,\"
by Anna Schwab.

Forwarded all sessions to EMI Webmaster for upload to Project website
\-- Free College Courses section \-- Courses Under Development
subsection \-- where they should be accessible soon.

\(3\) COLLEGE LIST ADDITIONS:

July 6, 2005 \-- Barbara Johnson, the Project Assistant, developed and
forwarded to collegiate points of contact, descriptions of programs at:

Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ \-- Homeland Security
Certificate Program Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA \-- Homeland
Security Graduate Certificate Program University of Findlay, Findlay, OH
\-- BS in Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Mgmt., EM
Emphasis Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA \-- BA in
Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

As soon as collegiate POC\'s give their approval, or make changes, these
new program descriptions will be uploaded to The College List on the
Project website \-- where they should be accessible shortly.

\(4\) DISASTER RESPONSE OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT \-- UPPER DIVISION
COURSE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT:

July 7, 2005 \-- Reviewed and approved 3rd draft of Course Preface and
provided review comments to course developer, Dr. David McEntire,
Director of the Emergency Administration and Planning Program,
Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas.

Reviewed and approved 4th draft of Session 1, \"Course Introduction and
Overview.\" Forwarded the Preface and Session 1 to the EMI Webmaster to
upload to the Project Website \-- Free College Courses section \--
Courses Under Development subsection \-- to replace the previous drafts.
Should be accessible shortly.

\(5\) DISCIPLINES, DISASTERS, AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT \-- TEXTBOOK
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT:

July 5, 2005 \-- Received and approved 2nd draft of the chapter on
\"Engineering Contributions to the Field of Emergency Management,\" by
Ana Maria Cruz, Emergency Administration and Planning Program,
Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas.

July 7, 2005 \-- Reviewed 1st draft of chapter on \"Public Health and
Medicine in Emergency Management,\" by Dr. Richard A. Bissell,
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Emergency Health
Services, and provided review comments. From the abstract:

\"Public health and medicine have many parallels with emergency
management in terms of overall goals, basic conceptual models, and many
operational modalities. The health sector and emergency management (EM)
both strive to protect the public from maladies using organizational and
science-based tools. Both health and EM are multi-disciplinary in their
scientific underpinnings, although health has gone much further than EM
in developing its own scientific disciplines. Despite many common values
and foci, as well as having many similar operational characteristics,
health and emergency management have mostly failed to share their tools
and personnel and have not collaborated smoothly in preparing for, and
responding to mass emergencies. This chapter addresses the
medical/public health approach to addressing threats to human
well-being, and outlines specific tools that health and emergency
management need to share in order to enhance their future collaboration
toward better population outcome in emergencies and disasters.\"

July 7, 2005 \-- Reviewed and approved 2nd draft of chapter on \"Public
Administration, Emergency Management, and Disaster Policy,\" by Dr.
William L. Waugh, Jr., Graduate Department of Public Administration,
Georgia State University. From the Chapter Abstract:

\"Public administrationists have been relatively slow to address the
organizational issues in emergency management and the policy dilemmas
resulting from the complex intergovernmental context of disaster policy
and emergency management. A 1984 workshop helped develop a small
community disaster researchers and they have provided much of the core
of public administration disaster research over the past two decades.
The events of September 11, 2001, however, have drawn many more public
administrationists to disaster-related research, but the difficulty
gaining access to Homeland Security offices and the lack of transparency
in Homeland Security operations has created serious problems for those
seeking to conduct rigorous research on organizational structures and
processes.\"

Forwarded chapters to EMI Webmaster for upload to the Project website
\-- Free College Courses and Books section \-- Books Under Development
subsection

\-- should be accessible soon.

July 8, 2005 \-- Reviewed 1st draft of proposed chapter on Criminal
Justice by Dr. Robert Louden, Professor of Criminal Justice, Georgian
Court University, Lakewood, NJ, and provided review comments to textbook
editor and lead developer, Dr. David McEntire, University of North
Texas.

\(6\) FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT \-- GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSE DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT:

July 5, 2005 \-- Received:

1st draft of Session 7, \"Stream Management Framework - The Physical
Principals and Practice,\" by Dr. Donald Reichmuth, President of Geomax.

3rd draft of Session 19 for review, \"Mitigating Flood Losses,\" by
Larry Larson and Rod Emmer;

3rd draft of Session 20, \"Mitigation Programs,\" by Larson and Emmer
(reviewed and approved). Forwarded reviewed material to the EMI
Webmaster for upload to the Project website \-- Free College Courses
section \-- Courses Under Development subsection \-- where it should be
accessible soon.

1st draft of Session 28, \"Exercise Introduction,\" by lead course
developer, Bob Freitag, University of Washington.

1st draft of Session 30, \"Exercise Presentation,\" by Bob Freitag.

\(7\) GAO REPORT ON \"RISK MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES CAN HELP DHS ALLOCATE
RESOURCES TO HIGHEST PRIORITIES\":

July 5, 2005 \-- Downloaded \-- from
[[http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05824t.pdf]{.underline}](http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05824t.pdf)

\-- and read this \"Statement of David M. Walker, Comptroller General of
the United States, U.S. Government Accountability Office, delivered on
June 29,

2005 before the House Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and
Oversight, Committee on Homeland Security. Makes the case that \"A
comprehensive risk management framework \-- which includes an assessment
of risk through threat, vulnerability, and criticality assessments \--
should be applied to guide these \[DHS resource investment\]
decisions.\"

\(8\) HAZARDS MAPPING AND MODELING \-- UPPER DIVISION/GRADUATE-LEVEL
COURSE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT:

July 5, 2005 \-- Received for review, Session 16, \"Modeling the
Vulnerability of Potential Targets to Threats of Terrorism,\" by John C.
Pine, Director, Disaster Science and Management, Interim-Chair,
Department of Geography and Anthropology, Professor-Research, Department
of Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University; and William Waugh,
Jr. Professor, Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies,
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA.

July 6, 2005 \-- Reviewed 1st draft of Session 12, \"Supporting
Emergency Recovery Operations (Debris Management) Using GIS,\" by
Professor of Geography Ute Dymon (Kent State) and Dr. Nancy Winter,
provided review comments to Dr. Dymon and to lead course developer, Dr.
John Pine, Louisiana State University, and forwarded draft session to
the EMI Webmaster for upload to the Project website \-- Free College
Courses section \-- Courses Under Development subsection \-- where it
should be accessible shortly. From the session\'s Scope statement:

\"An overview of how GIS has become an invaluable technological tool in
emergency response and recovery compares the debris management problems
in three case studies: Hurricane Andrew, the attack on the World Trade
Center, and the retrieval of the Columbia space craft debris. In
supporting emergency response and recovery efforts, GIS provided
critical mapping for problem solving and decision making in all these
cases. Compare the state-of-the-art in debris management in the natural
disaster, Hurricane Andrew, with the intentional terrorist disaster in
New York City on September 11, 2002 and the breakup of the Columbia,
especially in terms of the geospatial technology applied in each.\"

July 8, 2005 \-- Received for review working draft of Session15, \"The
Geographic Connection of Hazards,\" by Dr. Andrew Curtis, Department of
Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University.

\(9\) HI-ED PRESENTATION ON PROJECT WEBSITE:

July 5, 2005 \-- Forwarded to the EMI Webmaster a June 27, 2005 version
of the Emergency Management Higher Education Slide Presentation \-- to
replace the May 25, 2005 version, to which several additions and
modifications have been made \-- should be accessible soon.

\(10\) JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT \-- VOLUME 3, NUMBER 3, MAY/JUNE
2005 ISSUE IS AVAILABLE:

July 6, 2005 \-- Received latest edition. Items of note:

\"Legal Duties of Emergency Management Directors and Proactive Use of
Contract Law,\" William C. Nicholson, JD (pp. 12-14.

\"Gaining Sponsorship: An Effective Strategy for Reducing Organizational
Resistance to Emergency Management Response and Planning,\" by Neil
Simon (pp. 15-18).

\"Practicing Emergency Management in Institutions of Higher Education,\"
by Steven Charvat, MPA, CEM, and Elena Jarolimek, MUP (pp.19-24).

\"Benchmarking Emergency Preparedness and Response Practices in the
Process Industry,\" by Nir Keren, Harry West, and Sam Mannan (pp.
25-32).

\"Methodology and Description of the High-Consequence Event Decision
Matrix,\"

by Joshua Barnes and Christian Humphries (pp. 33-43).

\"Emergency Management Theory: Issues, Barriers, and Recommendations for
Improvement,\" by David McEntire (pp. 44-54).

\(11\) TERRORISM:

July 8, 2005 \-- Given the terrorist attacks in London yesterday,
decided to pull from the stack of books awaiting Activity Report
notation, one by Sam Harris, read recently, entitled \"The End Of Faith:
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.\" (NY & London: W.W. Norton
& Co., 2004). While this book will not be for everyone\'s tastes, it
merits consideration for use in courses that look at a broad range of
views on the roots of modern-day Islamist terrorism. Some notes:

\"We can no longer ignore the fact that billions of our neighbors
believe in the metaphysics of martyrdom\...\" (p. 14)

\"While I do not mean to single out the doctrine of Islam for special
abuse, there is no question that, at this point in history, it
represents a unique danger to all of us, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Needless to say, many Muslims are basically rational and tolerant of
others. As we will see, however, these modern virtues are not likely to
be products of their faith.

In chapter 4, I will argue that insofar as a person is observant of the
doctrine of Islam \-- that is, insofar as he really believes it \-- he
will pose a problem for us.\" (p. 28)

On 9/11: \"We have\...declared a war on \'terrorism.\' This is rather
like declaring war on \'murder\': it is a category error that obscures
the true cause of our troubles. Terrorism is not a source of human
violence, but merely one of its inflections\....we need only ask
ourselves why Muslim terrorists do what they do.\" (p. 28)

\"It is important to specify the dimension in which Muslim
\'extremists\' are actually extreme. They are extreme in their faith.
They are extreme in their devotion to the literal word of the Koran and
the hadith (the literature recounting the sayings and actions of the
Prophet), and this leads them to be extreme in the degree to which they
believe that modernity and secular culture are incompatible with moral
and spiritual health.

Muslim extremists are certain that the exports of Western culture are
leading their wives and children away from God\....Above all, they
appear to be suffering from a fear of contamination. As has been widely
noted, they are also consumed by feelings of \'humiliation\' \--
humiliation over the fact that while their civilization has foundered,
they have watched a godless, sin-loving people become the masters of
everything they touch\....They feel the outrage of a chosen people who
have been subjugated by barbarians.\" (pp.

29-30)

\"Most Muslims who commit atrocities are explicit about their desire to
get to paradise\....a martyr gets to pick seventy people to join him in
paradise.\" (p. 31)

\"\...people of faith tend to argue that it is not faith but man\'s
baser nature that inspires such violence. But I take it to be
self-evident that ordinary people cannot be moved to burn genial old
scholars alive for blaspheming the Koran, or celebrate the violent
deaths of their children, unless they believe\...\" (p. 31)

\"Most people in positions of leadership in our country will say that
there is no direct link between the Muslim faith and \'terrorism\'. It
is clear, however, that Muslims hate the West in the very terms of their
faith and that the Koran mandates such hatred. It is widely claimed by
\'moderate\'

Muslims that the Koran mandates nothing of the kind and that Islam is a
\'religion of peace.\' But one need only read the Koran itself to see
that this is untrue:

\'Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal

rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.\'

(Koran 9:73)

\'Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal

firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous.\' (Koran 9:123).

(pp. 32-33)

\"Subtract the Muslim belief in martyrdom and jihad, and the actions of
suicide bombers become completely unintelligible, as does the spectacle
of public jubilation that invariably follows their deaths; insert
these\...beliefs, and one can only marvel that suicide bombing is not
more widespread.\" (p. 33)

\"As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are the member of
a chosen people, awash in the salacious exports of an evil culture that
is turning your children away from God, believe that you will be
rewarded with an eternity of unimaginable delights by dealing death to
those infidels \-- and flying a plane into a building is scarcely more
than a matter of being asked to do it. It follows, then, that certain
beliefs are intrinsically dangerous. We all know that human beings are
capable of incredible brutality, but we would do well to ask, What sort
of ideology will make us most capable of it?\" (p. 44)

\"The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly
not \'cowards,\' as they were repeatedly described in the Western media,
nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of
faith\...\" (p. 67)

\"\...the world is filled with poor, uneducated, and exploited peoples
who do not commit acts of terrorism, indeed who would never commit
terrorism of the sort that has become so commonplace among Muslims.\"
(p. 109)

\"We are at war with Islam\....It is not merely that we are at war with
an otherwise peaceful religion that has been \'hijacked\' by extremists.
We are at war with precisely the vision of life that is prescribed to
all Muslims in the Koran\...A future in which Islam and the West do not
stand on the brink of mutual annihilation is a future in which most
Muslims have learned to ignore most of their canon\...\" (pp. 109-110)

\"The difference between fundamentalists and moderates\...is the degree
to which they see political and military action to be intrinsic to the
practice of their faith\...people who believe that Islam must inform
every dimension of human existence, including politics and law, are now
generally called not \'fundamentalists\' or \'extremists\' but rather,
\'Islamists.\' The world, from the point of view of Islam, is divided
into the \'House of Islam\' and the \'House of War\....The only future
devout Muslims can envisage \-- as Muslims

\-- is one in which all infidels have been converted to Islam,
subjected, or killed. The tenets of Islam simply do not admit of
anything but a temporary sharing of power with the \'enemies of God\'.\"
(p. 110)

\"We must not overlook the fact that a significant percentage of the
world\'s Muslims believe that the men who brought down the World Trade
Center are now seated at the right hand of God, amid \'rivers of purest
water, and rivers of milk forever fresh; rivers of wine delectable to
those that drink it, and rivers of clearest honey\' (47:15).\" (p. 127)

\"Saddam may have tortured and killed more Muslims than any person in
living memory, but the Americans are the \'enemies of God\'.\" (p. 128)

\"\...the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the
evil of terrorism. It is the evil of religious faith at the moment of
its political ascendancy. Of course, Islam is not uniquely susceptible
to undergoing such horrible transformations, though it is, at this
moment in history, uniquely ascendant. Western leaders who insist that
our conflict is not with Islam are mistaken\...\" (pp. 130-131)

\"As we see in the person of Osama bin Laden, a murderous religious
fervor is compatible with wealth and education. Indeed, the technical
proficiency of many Muslim terrorists demonstrates that it is compatible
with a scientific education.\" (p. 133)

\"Without faith, most Muslim grievances against the West would be
impossible even to formulate, much less avenge. Nevertheless, many
people are now convinced that the attacks of September 11 say little
about Islam and much about the sordid career of the West \-- in
particular, about the failures of U.S. foreign policy.\" (p. 138 \--
under the heading \"Leftist Unreason\...\")

\"In thinking about Islam, and about the risk it now poses to the West,
we should imagine what it would take to live peacefully with the
Christians of the fourteenth century \-- Christians who were still eager
to prosecute people for crimes like host desecration and witchcraft. We
are in the presence of the past. It is by no means a straightforward
task to engage such people in constructive dialogue, to convince them of
our common interests, to encourage them on the path to democracy, and to
mutually celebrate the diversity of our cultures.\" (p. 150)

\(12\) NEXT WEEK\'S ACTIVITY REPORT:

July 8, 2005 \-- There will not be an Activity Report for the week of
July

11-15 \-- am leaving today for Boulder CO for the annual Hazards
Conference, sponsored by the Natural Hazards Research and Applications
Information Center, University of Colorado. Will be back in the office
July 18.

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, N-430

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu)