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BORDER SECURITY Border Security Resilience and the Ebola virus - a threat to National Security across Africa and for the international community President Barack Obama has called the Ebola outbreak in West Africa “a threat to global security” He has called on other countries to step up their response, as a worsening outbreak would lead to “profound political, economic and security implications for all of us”. He continued by saying the outbreak had reached epidemic proportions in West Africa, as the disease “completely overwhelmed” hospitals and clinics and people were “literally dying on the streets”. The announcement came as UN officials called the outbreak a health crisis “unparalleled in modern times”. BBC September 17th 2014 The current Ebola outbreak has been the most serious since the 1970s and is optimistically expected to take many months before under control. The Cross border issues associated with such an outbreak require collaboration on a grand scale and planning which is capable of providing and delivering the necessary level of resilience to ensure that the outbreak is contained. However with no known cure to the Ebola virus we should at our peril not forget that less than 100 years ago the 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them— three to five percent of the world’s population— making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. In this feature John Baker Head of Global Operations for the National Security and Resilience Consortium (NS&RC) and Mike Fuller MBE Head of the NS&RC Resilience & Olympic Legacy Directorate examine what the United Kingdoms Olympic Legacy means to the National Security and Resilience sector, both in the United Kingdom and globally. They then examine how The Ebola outbreak offers a practical insight in how ‘Legacy Resilience’ expertise can be applied in a practical scenario. “Wherever there is good design you will find a civilised and progressive society “ Graham McCallum Designer What is the Olympic Legacy The London 2012 Olympic Legacy is the longer-term benefits and effects of the planning, funding, building and staging of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in summer 2012. It is variously described as: • economic – supporting new jobs and skills, encouraging trade, inward investment and tourism • sporting – continuing elite 8 - World Security Report www.worldsecurity-index.com
BORDER SECURITY success, development of more sports facilities and encouraging participation in schools sports and wider • social and volunteering – inspiring others to volunteer and encouraging social change • regeneration – reuse of venues, new homes, improved transportation, in East London and at other sites across the UK. What the Olympic Legacy means to UK plc At the time the UK Prime Minister said that the Olympics had been a “massive self-confidence boost” about “who we are as a country and what we stand for”. The Prime Minister said Lord Coe, who led the UKs planning, had “done a brilliant job delivering the best Games ever”, adding: “Now I want him to help me deliver the best Olympic legacy ever.” After the Olympics Mr Cameron told the BBC there was a “huge opportunity to build the legacy for the Games. Lord Coe said he was “very happy” to drive the legacy forward but it was not a “one- man mission” and the “whole nation” had to support its values. In the context of national security the resilience planning which occurred for the Olympics was complex, challenging and leading edge in terms of how the many stakeholders eventually worked so successfully together. The failure by G4S to deliver on the recruitment of security personnel is an excellent exmple of how a catastrophic failure by a key commercial partner had already been factored into the resilience planning by the Olympic www.worldsecurity-index.com “Resilience is the ability to sustain an effective operation even in the face of a natural or man made catastrophic failure within a social, business, geographical or business system . “ Mike Fuller MBE Former Olympic resilience lead Resilience team. The G4S situation was evident some18 months prior to the Olympics, a resilience strategy was created and modelled . This can now of course be viewed as a part of the brilliance of the Resilience teams modus operandii as a effective and well rehearsed plan was immediately implemented , the army deployed and all bases covered.. The expertise acquired during this process facilitated the team from Great Britain leading the planning for the Brazil 2014 World Cup and for engagement in the resilience planning for energy, medical and cross border security sectors . The Ebola Outbreak Cross Border Security and Resilience Planning. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world’s deadliest to date since 1976 when it was first seen, and the World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency as more than 2600 people have died of the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria this year. The United States has now deployed several thousand troops and committed massive resource as President Barack Obama has confirmed that it is now a threat to global security . What is Ebola? Ebola is a viral illness of which the initial symptoms can include a sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain and a sore throat, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). And that is just the beginning: subsequent stages are vomiting, diarrhoea and - in some cases - both internal and external bleeding. The disease infects humans through close contact with infected animals, including chimpanzees, fruit bats and forest antelope. It then spreads between humans by direct contact with infected blood, bodily fluids or organs, or indirectly through contact with contaminated environments. Even funerals of Ebola victims can be a risk, if mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased. The incubation period can last from two days to three weeks, and diagnosis is difficult. The human disease has so far been mostly limited to Africa, although one strain has cropped up in the Philippines. Healthcare workers are at risk if they treat patients without taking World Security Report - 9
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