The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Nexus Universe Annual Synthesis brings together the year's exercises and tests in Nexus Universe: the scenarios, what was learned and what changed as a result.
Nexus Universe Annual Synthesis is the Nexus Reports series on public-safe learning from the annual Nexus Universe programme. Contributions come from platforms such as Research Nexus and Governance Nexus. Editors follow the series method, and each edition is listed with its date, method and version history once released; a planned edition is never shown as published.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for World as an example geography for this subject.
The synthesis aggregates after-action reviews, groups lessons by theme and tracks whether earlier lessons were acted on.
| Element | In this series |
|---|---|
| Unit of analysis | One annual programme of exercises |
| Method | After-action review synthesis, lesson tracking |
Each edition is listed with its date, method and version history. A planned edition is never shown as released.
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. |
| Editorial independence | The condition in which editors decide what is published on the validity and relevance of the work, free from interference by owners, funders or sponsors, as ICMJE and COPE guidance describe it. |
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