Finding ways to lessen violent conflict and country fragility is essential because of the more than 100 million people who have been displaced by conflict and violence and the estimated 313.5 million people who require humanitarian assistance and protection. With the use of a new Crisis Sensitivity Simulator tool, analytics pioneer SAS is collaborating with The Fund for Peace (FFP) to discover opportunities for a nation to increase readiness in response to specific crisis and shock situations. With this knowledge, policymakers can find ways to help nations become more resilient so that they can decrease the severity and effects of a possible crisis and recover faster.
Through its Fragile States Index (FSI), which has evaluated the risks and vulnerabilities faced by 179 countries since 2006, FFP has been the go-to source for governments and organisations to help identify and quantify the aid needed for fragile states. Building on that achievement, the organisation is introducing a new State Resilience Index (SRI) to assess a nation’s capacity to foresee, handle, and recover from a crisis in relation to its seriousness. SAS assists FFP in analysing a country’s sensitivity to various levels of shock depending on its capabilities (SRI) and pressures using the Crisis Sensitivity Simulator (FSI). Through a variety of possible scenarios, SAS analyses the data to identify the crisis combinations that will be the most destabilising for each nation. Decision-makers can thus better get ready for a perfect storm.

Source: Prnewswire