Description: "Managing Emergencies and Crises: Global Perspectives is primarily for graduate level students and instructors who study and research on a wide range of socio-economic and political issues related to the management of 'natural' disasters from a 'social disaster' perspective. From a broad perspective this book covers various concepts including prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, as well as vulnerability and risk assessment that need to be understood by those in the emergency management field"--
Brief description: Alpaslan Özerdem is Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. With over 20 years of field research experience in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liberia, Philippines, Sierra Leone, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, he specializes in the politics of humanitarian interventions, disaster response, conflict prevention, reintegration of former combatants and post-conflict state-building. He has also taken an active role in the initiation and management of several advisory and applied research projects for a wide range of national and international organizations such as the United Nations and international NGOs. Professor Özerdem has published extensively and, amongst others, is author of Post-war Recovery: Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (I.B. Tauris, 2008); co-author of Managing Emergencies and Crises (Jones & Bartlett, 2011); co-editor of Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); co-author of Peace in Turkey 2023: The Question of Human Security and Conflict Transformation (Lexington Books, 2013); co-editor of Human Security in Turkey (Routledge, 2013); co-author of Youth in Conflict and Peacebuilding: Mobilization, Reintegration and Reconciliation (Palgrave, 2015); co-editor of Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding (Routledge, 2015); co-author of Peacebuilding: An Introduction (Routledge, 2015), co-editor of Conflict Transformation and the Palestinians: The Dynamics of Peace and Justice under Occupation (Routledge, 2017), co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics (Routledge, 2019); co-editor of Comparing Peace Processes (Routledge, 2019), co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Conflict Response and Leadership in Africa (Routledge, 2021).