Japan Institute for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JSIE) x

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) Global Health Innovation
Policy Program (GHIPP)
Regional Crisis Management & Leadership workshop
1st Crisis Simulation workshop
January 31, 2019

★Goal and the content of Crisis Simulation workshop• It is an active learning exercise, where participants will take part in a simulation of a regional
crisis that may affect multiple nations in various ways. Participants play as teams forrespective country roles, including Japan, China, the US and others.
• Each team representing a country will decide on various policies and responses, including
how to deal with domestic constituents and international community based on their own
national priorities and how to meet the ends by negotiating with other nations in bilateral
and/or multilateral settings.
• The goal of the exercise is to give participants an appreciation for the complex issues ofregional crisis in understanding how each nation would behave based on their nationalpriorities, identifying obstacles and challenges through making of domestic emergency
measures, and practicing leadership to come up with best agreed solutions.
★Highlights• 34 registered participants (11 non-Japanese, 10 women) were selected through application
process, and their backgrounds vary, such as corporate executives, managers, graduate
students, government officials, medical doctors, lawyer, Navy official, entrepreneurs, andresearchers.
• Participants are from Sri Lanka, the United States, China, Nepal, Taiwan, Poland, India,Mongolia, Japan, and Australia. The more diverse their backgrounds are, the broader
perspective and the more quality discussion took place. In particular, participants who haveyears of working experience and overseas experience, are adding extra values to therichness of the discussions and strategy-building processes.
• The workshop requires high level of English communication skills to negotiate, discuss, andpresent their ideas. Participants can actively learn practical perspectives of other nations byconducting role-playing exercises.
★Testimonial
The real time evolution of ideas as a result of interactions between different individuals andinterests was fascinating.
Everyone had chance to speak and was willing to contribute to discussion.
Very exciting to see different interest and perspectives and trying to reach mutually acceptableoutcome.
Scenario was well drafted, timing of adding new information, intelligence people.
I was able to meet and discuss with people that I would not have met in my usual work.
I enjoyed working with team members having different backgrounds to establish the team's
policies and strategies so that we could be in a better position for successful negotiations withother teams (countries)
It gave me a fresh perspective on how actors relate to each other in East Asia, particularly on
security issues. I feel like it was useful to my understanding of news around North Korea.
The program included not only BCP inside the organization also a negation between conflicting
parties.
I very much enjoyed diverse expertise of the participants, and the intense dynamic while clock
ticking.
I understood that it would be a key to manage a conflict of interests during crisis. Previously I
was thinking that in disaster everybody shares one goal but in reality not all the parties canshare common goal even during a disaster.
★Survey result
Please rate the level of satisfaction for the workshop?

Would you like to participate again?

Desire to participate next time

Level of satisfaction
Verysafisfied

27%
73%

100%

Somewhat
Satisfied4%
How effective were the instructors in articulating
the subject matter?

Supported by Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)and Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple
University Japan Campus

Was fascilitator effective?

23%

Very
safisfied73%

Somewhat
SatisfiedA little