Compassion in Disaster Management: The Essential Ethic of Relational Leadership [Hardcover]

This book offers leaders, especially those in disaster management, a way to improve their ability to lead, serve, and protect others during disasters and crises.?An essential text for aspiring and experienced leaders, especially those in the fields of EMS, fire services, law enforcement, and emergency management.?

Table of Contents

Dedication

1. Introduction

Part 1: Setting the Scene 

2. The Leadership Dilemma

3. Introducing Relational Leadership

Part 2: Suffering and Vulnerability

4. Understanding Suffering as a Basis for Relationality 

5. Responsibility for Minimising Suffering

6. Understanding Vulnerability as a Basis for Relationality

7. The InvulnerableRelational Leadership Continuum

Part 3: Compassion and Virtue

8. Establishing Relationality through the Ethic of Compassion

9. The Politics of Compassion

10. Enhancing Relationality through the Lens of Virtue Ethics

11. The Seven Rules of Virtue 

Part 4: Practices

12. Sustaining Relationality Through Practical Wisdom

13. Sustaining Relationality Through the Practice of Mindfulness

Conclusion

Epilogue

Mark Crosweller has 40 years of experience providing strategic policy advice on disaster management with local, state and national governments. He is a Distinguished Advisor to the National Security College  Australian National University and Director of Ethical Intelligence Pty Ltd. His ongoing research interest is in relational leadership ethics.

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