Abstract
The use of the term ‘complex emergency’ is popular in the field of public health and practices and natural science but gains traction in international public administration. The usage of this term in academia and practice is characterized by huge differences in its interpretation within and across the boundaries of all users. Put differently, various fields of study and practices advance different constructs of emergency and complexity frameworks that challenge the fundamental reasons for the existence of public policymakers and humanitarian responses in safeguarding life and property from hazardous events. Among other challenges is the conflation of established distinctions between civil and military or between geopolitics and humanitarianism that is recursive and proven disturbing to most stakeholders in the global sphere of governance. In unifying the construct of emergency and complexity framework within and between international public administration and public health policy, the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic as a public health emergency of international concern remains relevant – signaling that an outbreak might be imminent. This paper presents that the COVID-19 pandemic is a complexity framework while the impending spread, spillovers and stakeholder responses are constructs of emergence or content of the complexity. This study aims to harmonise civil-military partnership in a complex emergency while seeking to promote regional defence, peace and development. It uses a longitudinal multiple case study approach with four cases namely: experiential lifelong learning; complex emergency; civil-military partnership; and defence-peace-development nexus. Each case is embedded with three units of analysis. Implications for promoting collaborative learning are discussed.
Presenters
Shadrack Baleseng RamokgadiResearcher, Center for Military Studies, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa
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Public Health Policies and Practices
KEYWORDS
Complexity, Emergence, Learning, Health, Public
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