The Resilience Lab 360
Resilience Lab 360 is a private initiative advancing emergency management, technology-driven resilience, and higher education to strengthen MENA critical infrastructure against all hazards. It promotes a disciplined understanding of emergency management as both science and practice, and examines how emerging technologies are reshaping emergency management and higher education. It provides forward-looking insights through analysis, briefs, reports, and practical guides, with future training offerings across these domains.
The Resilience Lab 360 is founded and led by Dr. Osama F. Al-Kurdi, Ph.D., CEM
Emergency Management in Practice
Dr. Osama F Al Kurdi is an emergency management practitioner and academic focused on technology-enabled resilience and higher education. His work connects incident leadership, operational preparedness, and evidence-based research to help organizations translate theory into decisions. Through Resilience Lab 360, he publishes analysis, briefs, reports, and practical guides on emergency management as both science and practice—and on how emerging technologies are reshaping emergency management and higher education across the GCC and Jordan.
The Resilience Terms Field Guide
This guide clarifies emergency, crisis, and continuity terms by...
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The Political Imagination of Islamists, Before and After Modern States. A Book by Dr Heba Raouf Ezzat
Islamist political thought has spent a century locked in inherited...
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Beyond Altruism: How Geopolitics Shapes Global Disaster Aid
International disaster aid is often seen as a beacon of...
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Applying Simon Sinek’s “Start With Why” in Emergency Management
Discover how applying Simon Sinek's 'Start with Why' can create...
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Crisis Architecture
Analyzing national readiness frameworks and the failure points in traditional ICS implementations.
Operational Resilience
Data-driven methodologies for sustaining critical infrastructure during "Black Swan" events.
Crisis Management
Policy and Governance, Program Development, Crisis Management Plans, National Emergency Operation Center
Human Capital Development
Researching the gap between academic output and field reality in the Middle East.
Teaching and Training
Courses Taught
- Emergency / Disaster Management Foundation
- Business Continuity Management Foundation
- Technology for Emergency Managers
- Comparative Emergency and Disaster Management
- Community Disaster Management
- Principals of Management
- Applied Project Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Business Technologies
- IT for Business
- Introduction to Human Resource Management
Professional Training
- Emergency/Disaster Management
- Business Continuity Management
- Crisis Information Management System
- AI for Emergency and Crisis Management
- AI for Higher Education
