You will be writing a structured research paper supported by peer reviewed journal articles and other sources, on a particular area of security policy. In your research, you are encouraged to reach out to someone who has some involvement in the issue.
The paper will be a discussion of a case where “things went wrong.” This may be the case of a misguided public policy, an accident, a decision made to improve something that actually made it worse or created another problem, or a well-intended but disastrous decision. You may not use a decision from history.
Description of Problem
Background of industry, agency and controlling regulations.
What were the details of the problem that was being addressed?
Who were the people involved in making the decision?
What was the decision-making process?
What was the climate of the organization, group, individual, etc. like when the decision was being made?
Analysis of the Failure
What made the decision or policy fail? What were its unintended consequences?
In retrospect, what was wrong with the planning and decision process?
What was wrong with the way that the way people framed or modeled the problem?
What was wrong with the way that the way people framed or modeled the solution?
What, if anything, was wrong in the decision makers’ state of mind?
What if anything was wrong with the information they used? What issues or variables did they fail to take into consideration?
Discussion of How the Failure Might have Been Prevented
What alternatives were there?
What information should have been considered that wasn’t?
Put a plan together that would have prevented or anticipated the failure.
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