**October 12, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

Maghraoui, Abelslam and Najum Mushtaq. \"Engaging Islam.\" Foreign
Policy In Focus, September 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3540]{.underline}](http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3540)

\[Abstract: In August, FPIF contributor Najum Mushtaq authored a
discussion paper- \"Islamic Blowback Part Two?\"-that critiqued the
current U.S. policy of promoting \"moderate Islam.\" He was particularly
critical of a report by Abdeslam Maghraoui, director of the Muslim World
Initiative at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Here we highlight a detailed
response from Abdeslam Maghraoui, followed by a rejoinder from Najum
Mushtaq.\"\]

\(2\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACADEMY OF NEW ZEALAND:

Met today with Steve Glassey, Chief Executive of the Emergency
Management Academy of New Zealand, which offers two levels of emergency
management certificates comprised mostly of operationally-oriented
training courses. Mr. Glassey is developing a relationship with Massey
College in New Zealand which has instituted a graduate level emergency
management program. He hopes to have developed and instituted an
Emergency Management Diploma Program by 2008. Talked about training and
educational courses made available through EMI and the EM HiEd Project
and about the feasibility of linking to the Certified Emergency Manager
program managed by the International Association of Emergency Managers.
Mr. Glassey noted that there is some movement in New Zealand toward
building IAEM membership to the point that creation of a New Zealand
IAEM Region would be feasible. Also in attendance were Cortez Lawrence,
the Superintendent of EMI, Richard Callis, Deputy Superintendent, and
John Peabody, Chief of the EMI Readiness Branch. There is a description
of the EM Academy of New Zealand in the \"International\" section of The
College List on the EM HiEd Project website. For additional information,
Steve Glassey can be reached at:

<steve.glassey@emanz.ac.nz>

\(3\) GLOBAL WARMING:

Doughton, Sandi. \"Ecological Upheaval on the Edge of the Ice.\" Seattle
Times, 1 Oct 2006. At:
<http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=beringsea01m&date=20061001&query=Ecological+Upheaval>

\[Excerpt: \"About 80 percent of the southeastern Bering Sea used to
freeze every winter. Since the 1970s, the ice cover has shrunk as
average water temperatures have risen by as much as 4 degrees
Fahrenheit.\"\]

Stauffer, Hoff. \"A New Standard For Preventing Global Warming.\"

Foreign Policy In Focus, October 4, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3562]{.underline}](http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3562)

\[Excerpt: \"The debate in the United States on global climate change is
shifting from whether to do something about the problem to what to do.
Prudent people do not want to risk unacceptable adverse economic
impacts, even if they are extremely concerned about global climate
change. On the other side, equally prudent people do not want to risk
accomplishing too little. The debate is stymied, even though several
bills on global warming have been introduced into Congress. \"There will
be no climate change legislation coming out of my committee this year,\"
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) recently announced. \'Frankly, I don\'t
know how to write it, and I don\'t think anybody does\'.\"\]

\(4\) JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE, LOUISVILLE, KY \--
INVESTIGATING HS & EM PROGRAM:

Talked today with Ishmon F. Burks with Jefferson Community & Technical
College, Department of Criminal Justice, who has initiated an
investigation into the development of a Homeland Security and Emergency
management Certificate Program at JCTC. I noted the kinds of
information, materials, and leads to other points of contact that can be
found on the EM HiEd Project website that might well assist in such an
investigation. For additional information Mr. Burks can be reached at
<BURKS0001@kcts.edu>.

\(5\) MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW:

DisasterCom, September 2006. (Disaster Preparedness and Emergency
Response Association, PO Box 280795, Denver, CO 80228-0795, (303)
809-4412, URL:
[[http://www.disasters.org/dera/dera.htm]{.underline}](http://www.disasters.org/dera/dera.htm),
e-mail: <DERA@disasters.org>.)

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Vol. 14, No. 3,
September 2006. (Quarterly, Blackwell Publishers, Journals Dept, 238
Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, e-mail:
<jnlsamples@blackwellpublishers.co.uk>.)

Public RiskVol. 21, No. 8, September 2006. (Public Risk Management
Association, Monthly, Alexandria VA,
[[http://www.primacentral.org]{.underline}](http://www.primacentral.org/))

Ritter, Luke, J. Michael Barrett, Rosalyn Wilson. Securing Global
Transportation Networks - A Total Security Management Approach. New
York: McGraw Hill, 2007, 276 pages. Information on this book is
accessible at:

[[http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getbook.php?isbn=0071477519&template=]{.underline}](http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getbook.php?isbn=0071477519&template=)

\(6\) MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA \-- MASTERS IN EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT:

Received today a press release from Dr. Hank Fischer, Director of the
Millersville Center for Disaster Response and Education \-- announcing
the approval of a long-sought-for Masters in EM. Excerpt follows:

\"Harrisburg - The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education\'s
Board of Governors has approved a new Master of Science in emergency
management degree program to be offered by Millersville University of
Pennsylvania beginning next fall.

The program, which will be offered totally online, was developed in
response to a nationwide need identified by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) for well-trained individuals to plan and
coordinate emergency management efforts. Graduates will be prepared to
serve in a variety of positions in the emergency management field and to
attain certified emergency manager status.

The new degree will be taught by faculty affiliated with Millersville
University\'s Center for Disaster Response and Education. It has been
designed to enhance student skills in leading efforts in planning,
mitigation and response to disastrous events.

It is expected that many of the students who enroll in the program will
be individuals who already are working in the field. The program will
help in their career advancement.

As part of the requirements for obtaining the new master\'s degree,
students will use what they learn to develop a portfolio in which
existing emergency response polices, plans and practices are upgraded to
reflect best practices and research. The student\'s current job site or
a volunteer position he or she obtains will serve as the field location
within which to conduct the project.

The 30-credit program has been designed so that it can be completed in
two years. The online courses will include faculty and student
interaction through e-meetings and discussions. The curriculum will
follow key areas identified by FEMA\'s Higher Education Project.\"

For additional information there is a description of the proposed
program on the EM HiEd Project website \-- The College List \-- Proposed
Programs section. On October 13, the following website URL will become
active:
[[http://www.millersville.edu/\~MSEM]{.underline}](http://www.millersville.edu/~MSEM)
Or, contact Dr. Fischer at: <Hank.Fischer@millersville.edu>

\(7\) NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION -NORTH KOREA:

Feffer, John. \"Pyongyang 1, Bush 0.\" Foreign Policy in Focus, October
10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3581]{.underline}](http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3581)

\[Excerpt: \"\...why has the United States continued to speak loudly and
wield a big stick against a hornet\'s nest like North Korea?\"\]

\(8\) WAR ON TERROR:

Ramsay, Clay. \"Why Do They Hate Us?\" Foreign Policy In Focus,
September 21, 2006, Accessed at:
[[http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3536]{.underline}](http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3536)

\[Excerpt: \"A key dynamic in this persistence of negative judgments is
the cloud of human rights and legal issues that hangs over the way the
war on terrorism is conducted.\"\]

\(9\) WAR ON TERROR - AFGHANISTAN:

Christian Science Monitor. \"Afghanistan Five Years Later: Charting the
Reconstruction.\" October 12, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1012/p12s01-wosc.html]{.underline}](http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1012/p12s01-wosc.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Since 2001, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has increased
from 8,000 hectares to 165,000 hectares. But Afghanistan has also made
strong democratic advances, and the education system has markedly
improved. Since 1999, the percentage of Afghans enrolled in primary
school rose from 25 percent to 93 percent.\"\]

Motlagh, Jason. \"Taliban Viewed In A New Light.\" Asia Times, October
12, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ12Df02.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ12Df02.html)

SENLIS Council. Afghanistan Five Years Later. Spring/Summer 2006, 220
pages. Accessed at:

<http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/publications/014_publication/full_report>

\[From Executive Summary: \"Five years after their removal from power,
the Taliban is back and has strong psychological and de facto military
control over half of Afghanistan\.... The international military
coalitions in Afghanistan \-- the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom and
the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) \-- are
fuelling resentment and fear among the Afghan population\.... Afghans
see the international military coalitions as taking sides in a civil war
situation, and as NATO-ISAF troops retreat to their fortified military
compounds in southern Afghanistan, locals perceive that the Taliban-led
insurgents are once again defeating global military powers\.... After
five years of international donor pledges to provide resources and
assistance to Afghanistan, Afghans are starving to death, and there is
evidence that poverty is driving support for the Taliban\.... US and UK
counter-narcotics strategies have accelerated and compounded all of
Afghanistan\'s problems\.... Increasingly, Afghans perceive that their
government is accountable to international donors.\"\]

\(10\) WAR ON TERROR \-- IRAQ:

Schwartz, Alan. \"Scenarios for the Insurgency in Iraq.\" United States
Institute of Peace. October 2006, 12 pages. Accessed at:
[[http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr174.html]{.underline}](http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr174.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Three workshops explored hundreds of forces and factors
relevant to insurgency outcomes and focused on key drivers to develop
five alternative scenarios. These scenarios reflected the participants\'
perception that positive outcomes would be hard to achieve, and negative
outcomes could be foreseen much more easily. The workshops\' principal
finding is that U.S. goals for Iraq and the region should be reexamined
and scaled back. The administration\'s expressed goal of \"an Iraq that
is peaceful, united, stable, democratic, and secure, where Iraqis have
the institutions and resources they need to govern themselves justly and
provide security for their country\" is possible only in the very long
term.1 Avoidance of disaster and maintenance of some modicum of
political stability in Iraq are more realistic goals-but even these will
be hard to achieve without new strategies and actions.\"\]

\(11\) WAR ON TERROR \-- UNITED STATES:

PBS Frontline. \"The Enemy Within - A Case Study of America\'s Response
to the Threat of Homegrown Terrorism.\" October 2006. At:

[[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/enemywithin/]{.underline}](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/enemywithin/)

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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