**October 21-22, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- UNITED KINGDOM?:

Deedes, W. F. \"Muslims Can Never Conform To Our Ways,\" The Telegraph
(UK), October 21, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/20/do]{.underline}](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/20/do)

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\[Excerpt: \"It is vain to say: \'Well, if they come here, they must
conform with British society and its easy ways.\' Muslims will not do
that. Their religion forbids it. Why do we suppose India had to be
partitioned? There was no other way of keeping the peace in that great
sub-continent.\"\]

\(2\) FEMA 10th ANNUAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE,
JUNE 4-7,2007:

Communicated with Dr. David Neal, Director of the Center for the Study
of Disasters and Extreme Events, and Professor in the Fire and Emergency
Management Program at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, concerning
his participation in the next FEMA EM HiEd Conference. Dr. Neal noted
that in that he had developed an article on emergency management higher
education following a presentation at the first EM HiEd Conference which
surveyed the EM HiEd scene, perhaps it is time to resurvey that scene
ten years later. Strikes me as a very good idea. Also serves as an
opportunity to solicit suggestions for the next conference. We have
never gone through a formal \"solicitation of papers\" routine for the
EM HiEd Conferences, but we have always solicited thoughts, suggestions,
recommendations, presentations and volunteers, and informally solicited
papers. It is getting about time to start doing that again. Thus am open
to phone calls and emails on getting ready for the next conference. For
those unfamiliar with the EM HiEd Conferences, information can be
accessed via the \"EM HiEd Conferences\" tab on the homepage of the EM
HiEd Project \-- URL at the bottom of my signature block.

\(3\) GLOBAL WARMING:

Borenstein, Seth. \"Future Forecast: Extreme Weather.\" Washington Post,
October 21, 2006. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001454.html?referrer=email>

\[Excerpt: \"The changes are very significant\...It\'s enough to say
we\'re in for a bad future.\" {Claudia Tebaldi, lead author of a soon to
be published \"major international multiyear report on climate change
scientist\" at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder,
a federally funded academic research center.\]

\(4\) HOMELAND SECURITY \-- HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND PREPAREDNESS:

Wood, Sara. \"Students Meet DoD Official, Discuss Mock Security
Program.\"

American Forces Information Service, 20 Oct 2006. At:

[[http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=1734]{.underline}](http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=1734)

\[Excerpt: \"The one-year program the students went through was broken
into three phases. In the first phase, they learned about homeland
security and emergency response and designed emergency plans for their
locale and for \"Suburbia\" - a fictitious city. In the second phase,
the students applied and revised the emergency plans to three case
studies involving a natural disaster, a major accident and a terrorist
attack. They also began designing a homeland security education kit with
learning materials and activities for elementary and high schools. In
the third phase, the students prepared for and conducted a full-scale,
near-real time exercise. They produced a term paper documenting the
experience and recommending future actions.\"\]

\(5\) MITIGATION:

FEMA. \"Multi-Jurisdictional Approaches to Hazard Mitigation Planning\"

(FEMA 386-8). September 22, 2006, 52 pages, Accessed at:

[[http://www.fema.gov/plan/mitplanning/howto8.shtm]{.underline}](http://www.fema.gov/plan/mitplanning/howto8.shtm)

\[Note: This is the newest guide in FEMA\'s Mitigation Planning How-To
series. This guide provides suggestions to local governments in
preparing multi-jurisdictional mitigation plans. A multi-jurisdictional
hazard mitigation plan is a plan jointly prepared by more than one
jurisdiction and may include any county, municipality, city, town,
township, school district or other special district, council of
governments or other regional organization, Indian tribes or Alaska
Native village, or unincorporated areas\].

\(6\) WAR ON TERROR \-- IRAQ:

Dreyfuss, Robert. \"A Coup In The Air.\" Asia Times, October 21, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ21Ak03.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ21Ak03.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The clock is ticking for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki, the hapless, feckless leader of the Shi\'ite fundamentalist
party al-Dawa. From Washington, London, Baghdad and other capitals come
rumors that Maliki\'s government will soon be overthrown by a
nationalist general or colonel or that he will resign in favor of an
emergency \"government of national salvation\".

Moubayed, Sami. \"Heck of a Job, Maliki!\" Asia Times, October 21, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ21Ak02.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ21Ak02.html)

\[Excerpt: \"\...it is not surprising that there is a lot of talk about
a coup being planned to oust Maliki. Rumor has it that the newly created
Iraqi Army, along with former officers in Saddam Hussein\'s forces, will
stage a coup to topple Maliki and replace him with a strong prime
minister who is able to clamp down on the militias. This prime minister
would be pro-American, owing no loyalty to the militias as Maliki or
Jaafari did. The name circulating is former prime minister Iyad Allawi.
Rumors add that the US would initially denounce the coup in lip-service
to democracy, but eventually cooperate with the new regime because it
would bring security to Baghdad.\" Note: The author is a Syrian
political analyst.\]

Walker, Edward S.Jr. \"The Implications of Iraq.\" Middle East
Institute, October 20, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc572.html]{.underline}](http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc572.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The United States has been a stabilizing and balancing
force in the Middle East for many years. But when we broke up the
existing balance of power in the region by toppling Saddam Hussein, we
broke the Sunni hammer lock on the population of Iraq and opened the way
for Shia resurgence as well as for the extension of Iranian influence
and power in Iraq and, most recently through Hizbullah in Lebanon. We
exposed fault lines in the Middle East centered in Iraq and hidden by
the borders of an artificial state\.... The fault lines are not about
terrorism. What we are witnessing is the clash within the Islamic
civilization between the Shia and Sunni interpretations of the Koran, of
Islamic history, of tradition and of culture. It is also a clash of
power and privilege: the result of years of second-class citizenship for
the Shiite plurality in Iraq. Now it is pay back time. And finally, it
is a clash of nationalism between Persian and Arab nationalities. . In a
broader context, it is also a clash between a radical, intolerant
version of Islam that seeks a purity of faith that has not existed in
centuries, if it ever did, and those who believe in a different more
tolerant, more modern Islam. This is not to say al-Qaeda terrorists have
not made use of the disintegration of security and stability in Iraq.
They have. They have replaced the training grounds of Afghanistan and
Sudan with the live-fire experience of Iraq. They have used Iraq to hone
their tactics and develop new ways to cause American casualties. They
are learning lessons in tactics and weapons that can be applied
elsewhere against other targets, like Saudi Arabia, or Jordan or Egypt.
They have capitalized on anti-American anger in the region and in
expatriate communities in Europe as an effective recruiting tool\....
even in the absence of withdrawal, the fact that it appears that we have
been unsuccessful in achieving our objectives is giving terrorists
around the world heart. What the example of Iraq is doing, thus far is
offering encouragement to radical Islamists and other terrorist
wanna-bes. Because we have not yet been able to bring the violence under
control, meet the challenge of asymmetrical warfare, or defeat the
insurgency, we have encouraged the aspirations of other militant groups
in the region, like Hizbullah and Hamas. We will, of course, survive
Iraq as our real power is represented by our economy, our technology,
our entrepreneurial spirit. And our military will still leave us
predominant in the world. But in the process we will have lost a
psychological edge. We may lose an even more important asset than the
presumption of our military superiority if people in the world begin to
doubt our leadership and our ability to carry out our promises. That is
the real risk for America. America\'s global image of powerful and
rightful leadership is a major asset, , which we cannot afford to
squander.\" Note: Edward S. Walker Jr. is an Adjunct Scholar with, and
former President of, the Middle East Institute. He has served as US
ambassador to Israel, Egypt, the UAE, and as Assistant Secretary of
State for Near Eastern Affairs in the George W. Bush and Clinton
administrations.\"\]

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, K-011

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)

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