Posted: August 23rd, 2016

How will you go about creating awareness ?

There is a common emotion that all terrorists intend to evoke in the people they terrorize: fear. Fear is the great equalizer, and terrorists consider themselves a success if they have created fear in a population. Fear played an important part in how residents of New York City responded to the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th.
Initial studies conducted by the Department of Homeland Security have shown that residents of Shady Oaks, a small city population comprised of many senior citizens as well as people with disabilities, feel secure from any acts of terrorism, including catastrophic events. The feeling is unfounded, however; the reason residents do not fear terrorist threats is not because they feel prepared to react to such threats but because of the belief that their historically safe community would not be a target of terrorism.
As part of your project to improve the city of Shady Oaks preparedness against potential acts of terrorism, you must work with the mayor of Shady Oaks as well as with the police department, highway patrol, fire department, hospitals, and finally, residents to develop awareness of the possibility of terrorist attacks on Shady Oaks and the need for an emergency response plan.
The goal of this Discussion Board posting is not to develop an emergency response plan for the city of Shady Oaks, but rather, to address the concept of fear as it relates to terrorism and how people respond to fear. How will you go about creating awareness in Shady Oaks without instilling in its residents an irrational level of fear?
In your Discussion Board posting, you should do the following: