The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The mission themes Nexus Reports brings to the annual Nexus Universe programme, governed by The Global Risks Forum, with its own website at universe.nexus.
The Nexus Universe series of Nexus Reports publishes public-safe learning from the annual programme governed by The Global Risks Forum: what the exercises tested, what was learned and what was corrected. Editions follow the standard review and are listed as each is released.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for Middle East and North Africa as an example geography for this subject.
Proposed for controlled testing in the annual programme; a theme is not a confirmed exercise.
After-action reviews from Nexus Universe exercises feed the annual synthesis, which groups lessons and tracks whether they were acted on. Individual participants are not assessed in print.
Selected work is tested under controlled conditions, reviewed and then published with its limits. Results that pass go to Nexus Reports. The planned stand-down of each edition keeps review, reconciliation and corrections going after the event.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| After-action review | A structured discussion after an activity of what was planned, what happened, why, and what to change. |
| Lessons identified | Findings from a review that have been recorded but not yet acted on, as distinct from lessons implemented. |
| Simulation exercise | A practice, training or evaluation activity in which an emergency is described or simulated and participants respond as they would in reality, so that plans and capacities can be tested, as WHO's exercise manual describes. |
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