Building sustainable community resilience and business preparedness through stakeholder perspective
International Journal of Emergency Services
ISSN: 2047-0894
Article publication date: 28 February 2023
Issue publication date: 18 July 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The paper aims to examine business and community-based organizations’ efforts to increase engagement in building resilience to violent acts of terrorism in the community. Businesses and community-based organizations are now being called upon to join the wider preparedness, response and recovery efforts in response to terrorist violence.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative approach is used to explore the study. Data collection includes observation, analysis and interviews with practitioners and local stakeholders to document lessons learnt from all perspectives. Further to understand the role of private sector business and NGOs in building resilience to violent acts of terrorism in the community, 21 businesses were selected in the two cities of Shikarpur and Sukkur in the province of Sindh in Pakistan, during a period of high stress from terrorist violence between November and December 2020.
Findings
Community-based organizations in study areas contribute to resilience to violent acts of terrorism through making financial or material donations to local resilience to violent acts of terrorism programmes and by contributing supplies to affected people. Findings indicate that the implementation of a wide spectrum of community engagement initiatives has increased awareness of terrorist violence amongst various segments of societies.
Originality/value
The study provides a combination of practical data along with review of literature. A practical approach to the data collection from organizations operating in terrorist-ridden areas and consequently developing and implementing strategies to resilience to violent acts of terrorism in the community.
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Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan for the financial support in conducting this research and also would like to thank all members of SDPI for their cooperation and guidance throughout this research study.
Human rights’ statements and informed consent: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
Animal rights: This article does not contain any studies with animal subjects performed by the any of the authors.
Conflict of interest: Shuaib Ahmed declares that he has no conflict of interest.
Citation
Soomro, S.A. (2023), "Building sustainable community resilience and business preparedness through stakeholder perspective", International Journal of Emergency Services, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 171-185. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJES-08-2022-0039
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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