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Date: 8 – 10 December 2025
Time: 14:00-17:30 GMT
Registration: K2 Crisis & Resilience
We are pleased to announce a three-day continuing professional development (CPD) course on Disaster Resilience, Disaster Deaths and Creative Methodology for Risk Reduction delivered by K2 Crisis and Resilience in collaboration with ADN.
Day 1 will focus on Disaster Resilience in government, international affairs and international organisations, such as the UN.
Day 2 will focus on Disaster Deaths with attention on injury deaths and avoidable disaster deaths.
Day 3 will focus on Creative Methodologies for Risk Reduction through spoken word poetry, community engagement and art such as Etegami.
By the end of the training programme participants will have:
- Developed a theoretical understanding of the components required to build resilience in an environment, organisation or business.
- Demonstrated skills through crisis response and other exercises.
- Understanding on disaster deaths with attention on injury deaths and avoidable disaster deaths.
- Understood and developed creative methodologies for risk reduction.
- Been invited to form a professional network of risk reduction and disaster resilience professionals, supported by the ADN.
SPEAKERS
The course will be delivered by world-class professionals, academics and operational experts from India, Japan, Nigeria and the UK, including:
Dr. Winifred Ekezie – Epidemiologist and Lecturer, Public Health and Director, Centre for Health and Society, University of Birmingham; ADN
Professor Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett – Professor, Risk Management and Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Futures (IEF), University of Leicester; Founder President and Convenor, ADN
Dr. Hideyuki Shiroshita – Associate Professor, Disaster Mitigation and Safety Education, Kansai University; Founding President, ADN
Mr. Alexander Skinner – Director, K2 Crisis and Resilience; Former UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Mr. James D. R. Brown – Disaster Response and Humanitarian Assistance Specialist; UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team; Visiting Lecturer, Disaster Response, UK Universities
Dr. Aminur Rahman – Director, International Drowning Prevention and Research Division, and Deputy Executive Director, Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh (CIPRB); Portfolio Director, Drowning Data and Information, Royal Life Saving Society Commonwealth
Professor Anil Kumar Gupta – Full Professor, Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation Strategies, ICARS, Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee; Principal Editor, Disaster Resilience and Green Growth
Ms. Patience Andrew – Historian, Spoken Word Poet and Radio Broadcaster; Founder, Custodians of African Literature (COAL)
Ms. Shoka Stonelake – Japanese Art Instructor, Stonelake School
REGISTRATION
Register on K2 Crisis and Resilience website