On Connecting Cross-Culturally: Lessons Learned from Immigrant Cfts in the US

This article aims to advance the psychodynamic understanding of imagination failures by studying lessons learned in the US government’s public inquiry into September 11th, 2001 (9/11). Analyzing the findings of The 9/11 Report, I theorize that two forms of macro-level hubris—America’s “hubris of empire-building” and Al Qaeda’s “hubris-nemesis complex”—amalgamated in a uniquely generative manner leading to events on 9/11. Previous studies of public inquiries often demonstrate that inquiry reports are monological story-telling performances used to create sense-making narratives that function hegemonically to impose a simplified version of reality to assign blame and depoliticize events in order to facilitate closure after shocking events. In contrast, findings here suggest that by constructing a critical narrative, The 9/11 Report may serve as a new type of public inquiry report that invites learning about the complex factors that underpin crisis. The article concludes by identifying fruitful areas of future research and ways to theorize further about the collective psychodynamics of macro-level hubris and the psychodynamic factors that hinder learning and contribute to imagination failures.

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Usability of E-government mapping applications: lessons learned from the US National Atlas

International Journal of Cartography ◽

10.1080/23729333.2015.1093333 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 134-150 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Bradley Wade Bishop ◽

Kenneth Carter Haggerty ◽

Benjamin Earl Richardson

Keyword(s):

Lessons Learned ◽

The Us

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Countering Violent Extremism in Canada and Abroad

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings ◽

10.24908/iqurcp.11804 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Nora Abdelrahman Ibrahim

Keyword(s):

Best Practice ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Far Right ◽

Significant Development ◽

The Us ◽

Violent Extremism ◽

Recent Trends ◽

The Uk

Terrorism and violent extremism have undoubtedly become among the top security concerns of the 21st century. Despite a robust agenda of counterterrorism since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the evolution of global terrorism has continued to outpace the policy responses that have tried to address it. Recent trends such as the foreign fighter phenomenon, the rampant spread of extremist ideologies online and within communities, and a dramatic increase in terrorist incidents worldwide, have led to a recognition that “traditional” counterterrorism efforts are insufficient and ineffective in combatting these phenomena. Consequently, the focus of policy and practice has shifted towards countering violent extremism by addressing the drivers of radicalization to curb recruitment to extremist groups. Within this context, the field of countering violent extremism (CVE) has garnered attention from both the academic and policy-making worlds. While the CVE field holds promise as a significant development in counterterrorism, its policy and practice are complicated by several challenges that undermine the success of its initiatives. Building resilience to violent extremism is continuously challenged by an overly securitized narrative and unintended consequences of previous policies and practices, including divisive social undercurrents like Islamophobia, xenophobia, and far-right sentiments. These by-products make it increasingly difficult to mobilize a whole of society response that is so critical to the success and sustainability of CVE initiatives. This research project addresses these policy challenges by drawing on the CVE strategies of Canada, the US, the UK, and Denmark to collect best practice and lessons learned in order to outline a way forward.

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Building Tools to Support Active Curation: Lessons Learned from SEAD

International Journal of Digital Curation ◽

10.2218/ijdc.v12i2.552 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 76-85

Author(s):

Dharma Akmon ◽

Margaret Hedstrom ◽

James D. Myers ◽

Anna Ovchinnikova ◽

Inna Kouper

Keyword(s):

Lessons Learned ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Opportunities To Learn ◽

Data Repositories ◽

Team Coordination ◽

Data Infrastructure ◽

Data Life Cycle ◽

The Us ◽

National Science ◽

Future Data

SEAD – a project funded by the US National Science Foundation’s DataNet program – has spent the last five years designing, building, and deploying an integrated set of services to better connect scientists’ research workflows to data publication and preservation activities. Throughout the project, SEAD has promoted the concept and practice of “active curation,” which consists of capturing data and metadata early and refining it throughout the data life cycle. In promoting active curation, our team saw an opportunity to develop tools that would help scientists better manage data for their own use, improve team coordination around data, implement practices that would serve the data better over time, and seamlessly connect with data repositories to ease the burden of sharing and publishing. SEAD has worked with 30 projects, dozens of researchers, and hundreds of thousands of files, providing us with ample opportunities to learn about data and metadata, integrating with researchers’ workflows, and building tools and services for data. In this paper, we discuss the lessons we have learned and suggest how this might guide future data infrastructure development efforts.

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Epidemic Response: Follow-up and lessons learned from the US response to the evolving and conflicting risk information, focusing on education and clinical environments

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1071181321651045 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 1584-1587

Author(s):

Alison G. Vredenburgh ◽

Gail L. Sunderman ◽

Rodrigo J. Daly Guris ◽

Sreekanth R. Cheruku

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Us ◽

Hospital Systems ◽

Clinical Environments ◽

New Type ◽

Response Decisions ◽

Epidemic Response

In this follow-up panel, we discuss what we have learned over the last year about responding to an epidemic or pandemic that has demonstrated a level of transmission unprecedented in the modern era. Two medical doctors that have worked on the front of this pandemic share their experiences transitioning from the “sharp end” of the response. Decisions about how to mitigate hazards have occurred at the personal, institutional, and health policy levels, in real-time, with frequent adaptation, and often in advance of concrete evidence. Over the course of the pandemic, hospital systems revised existing protocols to manage perceived risks in real time using emerging information from other centers. With the introduction of vaccines, there is a new type of risk perception. Is the vaccine perceived to be safe? Is there a disparity in perception among different population groups? That said, analyses are also complicated by emerging viral mutations with unclear implications. What factors increase or decrease public compliance with precautions? How are US education policymakers deciding about face-to-face classroom instruction? This panel includes a warnings expert, an expert on education policy, and two practicing physicians.

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VeriMask

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies ◽

10.1145/3478105 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

Yan Long ◽

Alexander Curtiss ◽

Sara Rampazzi ◽

Josiah Hester ◽

Kevin Fu

Keyword(s):

Health Workers ◽

Low Cost ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Throughput Maximization ◽

Front Line ◽

Moist Heat ◽

Healthcare Settings ◽

The Us ◽

Real Scenario ◽

Smart Technologies

The US CDC has recognized moist-heat as one of the most effective and accessible methods of decontaminating N95 masks for reuse in response to the persistent N95 mask shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is challenging to reliably deploy this technique in healthcare settings due to a lack of smart technologies capable of ensuring proper decontamination conditions of hundreds of masks simultaneously. To tackle these challenges, we developed an open-source wireless sensor platform---VeriMask1 ---that facilitates per-mask verification of the moist-heat decontamination process. VeriMask is capable of monitoring hundreds of masks simultaneously in commercially available heating systems and provides a novel throughput-maximization functionality to help operators optimize the decontamination settings. We evaluate VeriMask in laboratory and real-scenario clinical settings and find that it effectively detects decontamination failures and operator errors in multiple settings and increases the mask decontamination throughput. Our easy-to-use, low-power, low-cost, scalable platform integrates with existing hospital protocols and equipment, and can be broadly deployed in under-resourced facilities to protect front-line healthcare workers by lowering their risk of infection from reused N95 masks. We also memorialize the design challenges, guidelines, and lessons learned from developing and deploying VeriMask during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Our hope is that by reflecting and reporting on this design experience, technologists and front-line health workers will be better prepared to collaborate for future pandemics, regarding mask decontamination, but also other forms of crisis tech.

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Coda: Flipping the Electoral World Upside-Down

Inside the Mind of a Voter ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691182896.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 291-314

Author(s):

Michael Bruter ◽

Sarah Harrison

Keyword(s):

Study Design ◽

Panel Study ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Peaceful Resolution ◽

The Us ◽

Static Models ◽

Main Determinants ◽

Original Dynamic

This chapter summarizes the lessons learned about Homo Suffragator and the psychology of voters. Do personality, memory, and identity shape citizens' electoral experience and behaviour, and elections' capacity to bring democratic resolution; and what are the main determinants of each model? Has the book's attempt to turn electoral science upside-down by switching the dependent variable been successful? It may be of greater consequence to know whether elections make people happy, and whether they offer a continuous peaceful resolution to divergent preferences and beliefs, than to know whom people and nations vote for. Beyond summarizing the results of the static models explored so far, the chapter also reintegrates the original dynamic expectations into the model, and assesses the reciprocal causality between the three interrelated dependent variable sets—behaviour, experience, and resolution—using the panel study design in the US case.

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Lessons Learned from the Canada–China FIPA for the US–China BIT and beyond

China's International Investment Strategy ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198827450.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 116-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kyle Dylan Dickson-Smith

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Legal Protection ◽

The United States ◽

International Investment ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

The European Union ◽

Investment Protection ◽

The Us ◽

Investment Agreements

Key lessons can be made from analysing a unique and recent BIT, the Canada–China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA), in order better to predict and identify the opportunities and challenges for potential BIT counterparties of China (such as the United States, the European Union (EU), India, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Columbia). The Canada–China FIPA and the anticipated US–China BIT (and EU–China BIT) collectively fall into a unique class of investment agreements, in that they represent a convergence of diverse ideologies of international investment norms/protections with two distinct (East/West) underlying domestic legal and economic systems. The purpose of this chapter is to appreciate and utilize the legal content of the Canada–China FIPA in order to isolate the opportunities and challenges for investment agreements currently under negotiation (focusing on the US–China BIT). This analysis is conducted from the perspective of China’s traditional BIT practice and political–economic goals, relative to that of its counterparty. This chapter briefly addresses the economic and broader diplomatic relationship between China and Canada, comparing that with the United States. It then analyses a broad selection of key substantive and procedural obligations of the Canada–China FIPA, addressing their impact, individually and cumulatively, to extract what lessons can be learned for the United States (US) and other negotiating parties. This analysis identifies the degree of investment liberalization and legal protection that Canada and China have achieved, and whether these standards are reciprocally applied. The analysis is not divorced from the relevant political economy and negotiating position between China and the counterparty and the perceived economic benefits of each party, as well as any diplomatic sensitive obstacles between the parties. While this chapter does not exhaustively analyse each substantive and procedural right, it provides enough of a comprehensive basis to reveal those challenges that remain for future bilateral negotiations with China.

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