Summary and Final Tasks
Lessons 13 and 14 constituted the capstone exercise. You served as a member of governmental, IGO, or NGO humanitarian aid team responding to a natural disaster in the complex emergency environment of Atlantica. The capstone exercise gave you the opportunity to:
- Work as a member of a team.
- Use higher or and critical thinking skills to conduct analysis.
- Conduct humanitarian negotiations in a complex emergency.
- Conduct crisis communication activities by interacting with the press.
- Demonstrate your ability to produce reports and briefings.
- Produce an after action review that identifies lessons learned.
- Synthesize and apply the knowledge of all previous lessons.
| Deliverables: Lesson 13-14 - Capstone Exercise | |
| Dates | Description |
| 27 - 30 November (Thanksgiving Break) |
Students access/familiarize with read-aheads |
| COB, 1 December (Monday) |
Task 1: Teams complete Info sheet/brief on organization, mission, capabilities and Atlantican Threat assessment |
| 2-5 December (Mon - Fri) |
Task 2 - Exercise Play: Humanitarian Space Negotiation |
| COB, 5 December (Fri) |
Task 3: Teams complete Operational analysis Using Sphere Handbook guidelines |
| 6 December (Exercise Pause) |
Army-Navy football game |
| 7 - 9 December (Sun-Tues) |
Task 4 - Exercise Play: Incident & Negotiation phases |
| COB, 10 December (Wed) |
ENDEX |
| COB, 12 Dec (Fri) |
Teams complete AAR |
Looking Ahead
This concludes the course. It was a pleasure having you in this class and thank you for all your hard work in completing this course. Please fill out the end of course questionnaire and check the gradebook to ensure you have credit for all your assignments. Do not forget to register for the next course. I wish you the best in the future and I hope the knowledge and skills you gained from this course will contribute to your success.