Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
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This confusion, overlapping of agendas, and multiple perspectives are best dealt with an academic exchange of ideas. Pace University, recognizing this opportunity and its strategic location—mere blocks from the former World Trade Center—seized the opportunity to focus the discussions and seek to potentially develop the framework on how to achieve resilience through public partnerships. To provide this educational forum to begin to address some of these broad issues, Pace University hosted the first in a series of Summits on Resilience. The initial goals of the Summit on January 11, 2012, were: • gain a better perspective on specific obstacles to more effective P-P To partnerships within the spheres of influence represented by selected panelists from both the public and private sectors. • identify potential solutions to identified obstacles to effective P-P To partnerships. • identify a variety of best practices in use today to address specifically To identified challenges that typically accompany any crisis. What follows is a summary of the Summit on Resilience. It includes welcoming remarks and an insightful perspective by the President of Pace University, Stephen Friedman, who brings to the discussion public and private experiences. His perspective focuses on the reality that once law enforcement and humanitarian rescue efforts are finished, no sector is responsible for assisting and assuring that rebuilding occurs. His comments are followed by Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction at the United Nations. Her comments focus on the need for public-private partnerships to address risk reduction and disaster recovery. To elaborate the realities of developing public-private partnerships, two panels of experts from both perspectives offered varying insights. One of the major outcomes of the conference was the development of six different papers on resilience and public-private partnerships. These papers represent the six schools within Pace University—Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Law, College of Health Professions, the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and the School of Education. The genesis of the idea to elicit these perspectives was Nira Herrmann, the Dean of the Dyson College, who recognized that achieving resilience through public-private partnerships requires a truly in-depth understanding of the need for an interdisciplinary nature on how to begin to address this complex problem. Joseph F. Ryan, PhD Chair and Professor Pace University Dyson College of Arts and Science Department of Criminal Justice and Security 6