While prevention is a common term that is defined differently by various disciplines, FEMA defines it in this framework as what leaders and practitioners at all levels of government, private- and nonprofit-sector partners, and individuals do to prevent, avoid, or stop a threatened or actual act of terrorism. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Prevention Framework describes what the whole community-from community members to senior leaders in government-should do upon the discovery of intelligence or information regarding an imminent threat in order to thwart an initial or follow-on terrorist attack ( FEMA, 2016b). Significant gains in resilience can be made by considering prevention, protection, and mitigation actions. The chief resilience officer for the research enterprise and the research enterprise planning committee, in coordination with the institution-wide planning committee, should consider these actions during the planning process. Chapter 5 focuses on potential actions from the prevention, protection, and mitigation areas that are specifically relevant to the research enterprise. In Chapter 4, the committee emphasized the importance of aligning the academic research institution’s disaster planning with the preparedness goals and procedures used throughout the nation. The information in Chapter 2 clearly shows that disasters are equal-opportunity destroyers, and the viewpoint that an academic research institution can simply rebuild as it was and “get back to business as normal” is myopic and fails to see the wider perspective that encompasses both the tangible and the intangible losses that are suffered when the research is lost.
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