Lawfare Archive: Juliette Kayyem on Dealing with Disasters

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From March 29, 2023: We live in a time of seemingly constant catastrophes, and we always seem a step behind and still fumble when they occur. It's no longer about preventing disasters from occurring, but learning how to use the tools at our disposal to minimize the consequences when they inevitably do. Juliette Kayyem has just written a book about it all called, “ The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters .” Juliette is a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a CNN national security analyst, and David Priess sat down with her to talk about it all. They talked about the traditional focus of the disaster framework; consequences minimalization; the…