CMN 3105 Chapter 2: Communication and Crisis Management
8 Feb 2017
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Crisis: the most extreme of all stress situations, holds highest degree of attention of most individuals, groups, systems, and countries. A situation that happens on various levels and fields. International crisis: crisis that occurs on a transnational level. Significance: less frequent occurrence, more consequent dangers, location between peace and war. International political crisis: deserves highest degree of attention. Bokhari: a conflict only draws attention when it becomes disruptive to the system. Distinctions between crisis and conflict: life cycle: crisis has a life cycle while conflict does not, way of termination: Factors for classifying the types of crises: political-historical genesis of crisis, systemic-structuralist view and locale in the system. 3: actor"s perceptions about the likelihood of violence, foreseeability and extent of preparation: types of crisis Crisis communication: increased volume/ speed of upward/ downward communications, greater emphasis on source. A crisis is high is these ^ three.
