This book presents sensemaking strategies to support security planning and design. Threats to security are becoming complex and multifaceted and increasingly challenging traditional notions of security. The security landscape is characterized as 'messes' and 'wicked problems' that proliferate in this age of complexity. Designing security solutions in the face of interconnectedness, volatility and uncertainty, we run the risk of providing the right answer to the wrong problem thereby resulting in unintended consequences.

Sensemaking is the activity that enables us to turn the ongoing complexity of the world into a "situation that is comprehended explicitly in words and that serves as a springboard into action" (Weick, Sutcliffe, Obstfeld, 2005). It is about creating an emerging picture of our world through data collection, analysis, action, and reflection. The importance of sensemaking to security is that it enables us to plan, design and act when the world as weknew it seems to have shifted.

Leveraging the relevant theoretical grounding and thought leadership in sensemaking, key examples are provided, thereby illustrating how sensemaking strategies can support security planning and design. This is a critical analytical and leadership requirement in this age of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity that characterizes the security landscape.

This book is useful for academics, graduate students in global security, and government and security planning practitioners.

Inhalt
1. The Security Landscape: systemic risks shaping non-traditional security.- 2. Exploring Sensemaking: A view through the COVID-19 pandemic.- 3. Sensemaking under conditions of extreme uncertainty: from observation to action.- 4. Global Health and pandemics - beyond direct effects of COVID 19 outbreak.- 5. Sensemaking and Disaster Forensics: an examination of Cholera epidemics.- 6. Sensemaking and Security: How Climate Change Shapes National Security.- 7. Importance of the Humanitarian Development Peace nexus to make sense for security Some thoughts and examples from Palestine.- 8. Location intelligence powered by machine learning automation for mapping malaria mosquito habitats employing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for implementing Seek and Destroy for commercial roadside ditch foci and real time larviciding rock pit quarry habitats in peri-domestic agro-pastureland ecosystems in Northern Uganda.- 9. Exploring the Opioid Crisis through systems thinking and participative model building: An experiential learning event.- 10. Vulnerability analysis to support disaster resilience.