The Federal Government has been urged to encourage the teaching
of crisis management skills in schools as a way of curbing the growing
trend of insurgency in the country and encouraging mutual co-existence
among the youths.
A safety and crisis management expert, Mohammad Sani Isa spoke in Abuja at the weekend while speaking of plans for the public presentation of a book on crisis management titled: “Crisisology: Charting a course through crisis.”
He said the book, a monograph to be launched on June 26 at Merit House, Maitama, Abuja is intended by his group, the Society for Safety and Crisis management (SSCM) to propagate the concept of Crisisology as an emerging academic discipline within the broader concept of social science.
“Its central theme is that crises can be detected, prevented and managed effectively and efficiently through education and sensitization,” Isa said
He argued that the emerging trend of insurgency in the country results mainly from ignorance, which promotes the unwillingness of those behind it to understand and tolerate contrary views about human existence.
Isa noted that it has become glaring that ignorance drives those behind the Boko Haram sect, who claim to detest Western education and their ways of life, but yet depend on their inventions, like the sophisticated weapons, which are products of Western education, for their activities.
“What the government should do is to focus on ways of enlightening the younger generation about the need to resolve disputes amicably, learn to accommodate others’ views and realise that violence bears no positive fruits.
Isa, who is the President of SSCM, suggested a departure from the current practice of deploying the nation’s energy to responding to crisis as against seeking ways of preventing crisis and nipping it in the bud, where it arises.
“Crisisology calls for improved, dedicated and scientific study of crisis for proper vigilance, extended due diligence and strict enforcement of extant control mechanisms. Today’s operating environment demands that we should be prepared to develop a crisis mentality that recognizes that crisis can occur any time,” he said.
A safety and crisis management expert, Mohammad Sani Isa spoke in Abuja at the weekend while speaking of plans for the public presentation of a book on crisis management titled: “Crisisology: Charting a course through crisis.”
He said the book, a monograph to be launched on June 26 at Merit House, Maitama, Abuja is intended by his group, the Society for Safety and Crisis management (SSCM) to propagate the concept of Crisisology as an emerging academic discipline within the broader concept of social science.
“Its central theme is that crises can be detected, prevented and managed effectively and efficiently through education and sensitization,” Isa said
He argued that the emerging trend of insurgency in the country results mainly from ignorance, which promotes the unwillingness of those behind it to understand and tolerate contrary views about human existence.
Isa noted that it has become glaring that ignorance drives those behind the Boko Haram sect, who claim to detest Western education and their ways of life, but yet depend on their inventions, like the sophisticated weapons, which are products of Western education, for their activities.
“What the government should do is to focus on ways of enlightening the younger generation about the need to resolve disputes amicably, learn to accommodate others’ views and realise that violence bears no positive fruits.
Isa, who is the President of SSCM, suggested a departure from the current practice of deploying the nation’s energy to responding to crisis as against seeking ways of preventing crisis and nipping it in the bud, where it arises.
“Crisisology calls for improved, dedicated and scientific study of crisis for proper vigilance, extended due diligence and strict enforcement of extant control mechanisms. Today’s operating environment demands that we should be prepared to develop a crisis mentality that recognizes that crisis can occur any time,” he said.
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