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Federal Disaster Response Policy: The Stafford Act and Priorities for Reform
May 6, 2008
Archived video (in RealPlayer format) is available here.
CCPR and the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress hosted a discussion on the cornerstone of federal disaster relief legislation, the Robert T. Stafford Act, and needed reforms.
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NYPD Peer Support Programs 3-Year Study Provides Groundbreaking Research
April 16, 2008
The New York University Center on Violence and Recovery released the results of a three-year (2005-2007) study on peer support programs for NYPD officers, the Public Safety Trauma Response Study. The study examined police attitudes and beliefs about help seeking for work-related and other stress, awareness and utilization of the peer programs, and how police officers manage day-to-day stress.
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CCPR Hosts Symposium on Large Scale Emergency Readiness
March 10, 2008
March 3, 2008, CCPR and LaSER hosted a national urban preparedness consortium session to kick start the dissemination of its project results.
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Press Release: Stafford Act Report
October 17, 2007
NYU Study Finds Federal Disaster Relief Law Does Not Recognize Modern Threats or Provide Adequate Recovery Aid
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Katrina Research Projects Website
March 14, 2007
On March 1, we were proud to host a panel discussion on the preliminary findings of seven research projects on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Information on these projects is now available on our Katrina Projects Website.
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K. Bradley Penuel
Director
T: 212.998.2183
brad.penuel@nyu.edu
David Berman, Associate Director
david.berman@nyu.edu
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New York, NY 10003
New York University's Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) is pleased to host the second in a series of The Cohen-Nunn Dialogues.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Howard Gilman
Foundation cordially invite you to:
The Cohen-Nunn Dialogues
PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND:
THE CHALLENGES TO AMERICA'S HOMELAND SECURITY
Monday, April 28, 2008
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
New York University - Tishman Auditorium
40 Washington Square South (between MacDougal and Sullivan)
To access the archived event webcast, please click here.
Please note: In order to view the achived webcast, you will need to have RealPlayer installed.
You can download it for free here. Apple Mac users, please follow this link.
Hosted by:
The Honorable William Cohen
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and former U.S. Senator (R-Maine)
The Honorable Sam Nunn
Chairman, CSIS Board of Trustees, and former U.S. Senator (D-Georgia)
Welcome:
John Sexton, President, New York University
Introduction:
Admiral James Loy, Former Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
Discussants:
The Hon. Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, New York City
Stephen Flynn, Author, America The Vulnerable
Jessica Stern, Author, Terror in the Name of God
"We Americans need to focus on seminal issues that those who seek to be our leaders must address... If as a nation we begin to ask, debate and answer these questions and these challenges, we can renew our commitment to community, enable those we elect, and restore an exhilarating sense that, once again, we are all in this together."
William S. Cohen and Sam Nunn,
"Changing Our Direction," Boston Globe, Dec. 30, 2007