History
History of the ISCEM
In the affairs of this world, it is often the case that the true origin of an undertaking cannot be traced to any single, clearly discernible cause. So it is with the beginnings of what has now become, in this twentieth year, the International Conference on Crisis and Emergency Management (ICCEM). The founding of the ICCEM and the subsequent birth of the International Society for Crisis and Emergency Management (ISCEM) cannot properly be called mere coincidence, nor can they be called simple necessity — they arose, rather, from a convergence of circumstances that neither category quite captures. Ordinarily, a learned society is formed first, and that society then organizes and convenes its conference. In the case of the ICCEM and ISCEM, however, the order was reversed.
President Roh Moo-hyun, only eight days before his inauguration in 2003, witnessed the tragedy of the Daegu subway fire, and it appears this experience impressed upon him, more deeply than perhaps any other single event, the paramount importance of disaster management. Immediately upon taking office, he established a National Disaster Management System Planning Group, led by the Vice Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs and staffed by more than seventy civil servants drawn from central ministries including the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense, in order to reform the nation's disaster management system. Even as this work proceeded, crises of an unprecedented character continued to emerge — the first and second strikes of the Cargo Truckers' Solidarity, the railway workers' strike, the outbreaks of SARS and avian influenza, the controversy over the Sapaeksan Tunnel, and the threat to the nation's financial stability posed by the merger of Chohung Bank and Shinhan Bank, among others. Amid all of this, the President came to feel that crisis management, if left in the hands of practitioners alone, would meet the limits of what could be achieved — and that only through its establishment as a genuine field of scholarship could crisis management truly advance. This conviction he made known as an instruction of state.
Beginning in the spring of 2006, the National Security Council within the Blue House — Korea's presidential office at the time — began to act upon President Roh Moo-hyun's directive to report on how crisis management might be advanced as an academic discipline, and in this effort the Council sought my assistance as an advisory member. It was Ryu Hee-in, who then served concurrently as the President's Secretary for Crisis Management, Deputy Secretary-General of the NSC, and Director of the Crisis Management Center, who recommended me among the advisory members as the person best suited to carry out this presidential project, and who asked that I undertake it. He further requested that I establish a crisis management research institute at Chungbuk National University. I accordingly proposed the founding of such an institute to then-President of Chungbuk National University, Rim Dong-chul, who upon receiving the proposal helped prepare the regulations and procedures necessary for its establishment. In the course of this process, President Rim Dong-chul concluded a memorandum of understanding regarding the institute's establishment with Baek Jong-chun, then Chief of the National Security Office at the Blue House. On December 29, 2006, the proposal passed the Faculty Council of Chungbuk National University, and the National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute — known today as the National Crisisonomy Institute — was formally established. I was appointed its director, effective January 5, 2007.
Against this backdrop, I found myself in deep agreement with the President's perception of, and concern for, this matter as the nation's highest leader. My own engagement with the study of crisis management began earlier still, in January of 1991, during the Gulf War, when I watched on the screen a young child weeping over the body of her dead mother amid the devastation of war. In that moment I came to believe that no ideology, however noble its cause, no thought, and no religion, however exalted, could ever justify the killing of the innocent — and that a discipline dedicated to the protection of the innocent, namely crisis management, was what I must devote myself to studying. The following day, with the permission of my doctoral advisor, Professor Kim Hyung-ryul, I began this research in earnest. And then, as if by some quiet turn of fate, after completing thirty-six months of mandatory service as an army officer, I returned to my doctoral studies in the autumn of 1996 and continued my research into crisis management. In the first semester of 1997, Professor Jong Sup Chun of California State University, Hayward, came to Korea on sabbatical and taught a graduate seminar in administrative philosophy, which I attended. Professor Chun, who had earned his doctorate in the United States and taken up a university post there, spoke in that seminar of how, recognizing the need for a journal in the field of administrative theory and philosophy, he had founded the Public Administration Theory Network (PAT-Net) and had, for twenty years by that time, published its journal, Administrative Theory and Praxis (ATP). His words felt to me nothing short of miraculous.
At that time, I too had come to feel keenly the need for a scholarly journal in crisis management — one dedicated to building a safe and happy human community. Inspired by Professor Chun's example, I resolved that once I had earned my doctorate, become a professor, and reached the age of forty, I would establish an academic journal to serve as a forum for scholars of crisis management. I received my doctorate in crisis management research in February 2000 and joined the faculty of Chungbuk National University in September of that same year. In time, I turned forty, and in February 2005 I launched an academic community network entitled Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis; on June 30, 2005, I published the inaugural issue of a journal I named the Korean Review of Crisis and Emergency Management (KRCEM). From April 2007, at the invitation of Park Won-soon, then Executive Director of the Hope Institute, I additionally took on the directorship of the Disaster Management Research Institute under the Hope Institute.
It was in August 2007, while I was occupied simultaneously with my duties as Director of the National Crisis Management Research Institute at Chungbuk National University, Director of the Disaster Management Research Institute at the Hope Institute, and an advisory member of the National Security Council at the Blue House, that Kim Jin-ho, then Secretary-General of the Korea Disaster Relief Association, came to see me. He asked that I organize an international academic conference on behalf of the Association. In response to this request from the Korea Disaster Relief Association — an organization that, since 1961, had devoted itself to fundraising and relief work on behalf of Korea's disaster victims — the steering committee of the Hope Institute's Disaster Management Research Institute resolved, on September 1, 2007, to convene an international conference on crisis and emergency management. The first preparatory committee meeting was held on Friday, September 7, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., and preparations began in earnest for the First ICCEM, held from Thursday, November 8, through Saturday, November 10. The theme of that inaugural conference was Global Disaster Relief Governance and Disaster Management Cooperative System for Civil Protection.
At that time, not one of us — myself included — imagined that a Second ICCEM would follow in 2008, still less that the conference would go on to reach its twentieth edition. That possibility took shape only in the spring of 2008, when I received a call from Dr. Kwon Gun-ju, who was then working at the Samcheok City Government in Gangwon Province. Dr. Kwon, who himself held a doctorate in local government disaster management, informed me that Samcheok City had secured a budget for hosting an international conference and formally requested that the conference be held there. At the same time, the Korea Disaster Relief Association indicated its willingness to continue supporting the conference's expenses should it be held again in 2008. It was this development that first led the organizing members to begin discussing the founding of a formal academic society — the International Society for Crisis and Emergency Management (ISCEM). Around this same period, through the introduction and recommendation of Jong Il Na, then a doctoral student at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University, I began an exchange with Professor Norio Okada of Kyoto University, culminating in a Korea–Japan international seminar held on Friday, March 21, 2008. Separately, through the introduction of Professor Qiang En Fang — who had earned his doctorate under my supervision and, in 2007, had joined the faculty of Tianjin Normal University in China — I was introduced to Professor Chen An of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. I first met Professor Chen An in person at a Korea–China international seminar held at Shanghai Jiaotong University on Friday, May 30, 2008. My former student, Professor Qiang En Fang, spoke of Professor Chen An's character and scholarly passion in the warmest possible terms. On the strength of this introduction, I invited both Professor Okada and Professor Chen An to the Second ICCEM in 2008, and proposed that the three of us — Jae Eun Lee, Norio Okada, and Chen An — together form the founding Presidential Board of a new academic society, ISCEM. All three agreed, and it was through this agreement that the governance structure of ISCEM came into being.
From 2009 onward, the unexpected and, it must be said, uncertain good fortune that has accompanied ISCEM has continued without interruption to this day. In 2009, Professor Oh Jae-ho of Pukyong National University, a meteorologist by training, generously offered to host and support the ICCEM at his university — a proposal for which I remain deeply grateful. On Friday, August 21, 2009, I was elected the founding President of the newly established Korean Association for Crisis and Emergency Management (KACEM), and shortly thereafter, in cooperation with ISCEM, held KACEM's first international event, the Third ICCEM, in Busan. In 2010, Professor Chen An once again secured a venue for ISCEM, hosting the Fourth ICCEM at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and in 2011 Professor Norio Okada hosted the Fifth ICCEM at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University. Professor Janet Dilling and Professor Audrey Heffron-Casserleigh, with whom I had first begun an international exchange in the year 2000, hosted the Sixth ICCEM in 2012 at Florida State University in the United States. In 2013, the conference returned once more to Chungbuk National University in Korea, where I hosted the Seventh ICCEM, and in 2014 Professor Goreti Marreiros of the Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, hosted the Eighth ICCEM in Portugal. In 2015, Professor Keiko Kitagawa hosted the Ninth ICCEM in Tokyo, Japan, and at that gathering she invited the assembled participants to propose, openly and together, a venue for the milestone Tenth ICCEM the following year. Through this process, Lucerne, Switzerland, was chosen, and Professor Jang Hee Lee of Chungbuk National University hosted the Tenth ICCEM there. The Eleventh ICCEM was held from December 15 to 17, 2017, across the Korean cities of Boryeong, Sejong, and Cheongju, under my direction. The Twelfth ICCEM was hosted by Professor Janet D. Dilling in Singapore, from November 22 to 24, 2018. The Thirteenth ICCEM was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 25 and 26, 2019, hosted by Professor Gajendra Sharma of Kathmandu University together with his colleagues. The Fourteenth ICCEM, held in 2020, drew participation from fourteen countries — Korea, China, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia, India, and Chile — though, owing to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was regrettably conducted entirely online.
The Fifteenth ICCEM was hosted in Korea by Professor Jeong Yee Bae of Inje University, from November 11 to 13, 2021. The Sixteenth ICCEM was hosted in Bangkok, Thailand, by Secretary-General Hans Guttman, Executive Director of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC). The Seventeenth ICCEM was held from December 9 to 10, 2023, hosted once again by Professor Chen An at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. The Eighteenth ICCEM was held from July 12 to 14, 2024, in the Korean region that had suffered the tragedy of the Osong disaster, hosted under my direction; participants and organizations from UNDRR, ADPC, Korea, China, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Thailand, Nepal, Mongolia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Canada, and Vietnam took part. The Nineteenth ICCEM was hosted by Professor Jennifer Holmes and Professor Dohyeong Kim of the University of Texas at Dallas, with participants from the United States, Korea, China, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Rwanda. And now, in this twentieth year, the Twentieth ICCEM is set to convene on December 5 and 6, 2026.
Reflecting upon this long and winding history, I have come to understand a simple truth: that the good and generous ties formed with so many good people are the very foundation upon which a safer and happier world is built. It is my abiding belief that the boundless love, attention, and support of all who have walked this path together will remain the surest foundation for the future work of ISCEM.
The Record, 2007–2026
I. 1st ICCEM — 2007 · Korea
Global Disaster Relief Governance and Disaster Management Cooperative System for Civil Protection
Dates — 8–10 November 2007
Venue — Chungbuk National University, Cheongju & Seoul Kyoyuk Munhwa HoeKwan
Chair — Dr. Jae Eun Lee
Organized by — Korea Disaster Relief; Disaster Management Research Institute, The Hope Institute; National Crisis & Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University
Sponsored by — POSCO; Chungbuk National University
II. 2nd ICCEM — 2008 · Korea
Crisis and Emergency Management in Global Society: Managing Disaster Relief and Promoting the Disaster Management Industry
Dates — 16–18 October 2008
Venue — Kangwon National University (Samcheok) & Seoul Kyoyuk Munhwa HoeKwan
Chair — Dr. Jai Ho Oh
Managed by — International Society for Crisis and Emergency Management (ISCEM)
Organized by — Korea Disaster Relief Association; Disaster Management Research Institute, The Hope Institute; National Crisis & Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University
Sponsored by — POSCO; Chungbuk National University
Supported by — Crisis Management Forum in the National Assembly; A&D Engineering Co., Ltd.
III. 3rd ICCEM — 2009 · Korea
Crisis and Emergency Management in Global Society: Human Dignity, Disaster Victims' Relief, and Climate Change Response
Dates — 24–26 September 2009
Venue — Press Center, Seoul & Pukyong National University, Busan
Chair — Dr. Jae Eun Lee
Organized by — Korea Disaster Relief Association; Research Institute of the Differently Abled Person's Right, Daejeon; Disaster Management Research Institute, The Hope Institute; Safe Korea News; Disaster Focus; Center for Atmospheric Sciences and Earthquake Research; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University
Managed by — ISCEM; Korean Association for Crisis and Emergency Management (KACEM)
Sponsored by — Pukyong National University; Chungbuk National University
Supported by — Hyundai Motor Company; A&D Engineering Co., Ltd.
IV. 4th ICCEM — 2010 · China
Dates — 15–17 October 2010
Venue — Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Chair — Dr. An Chen
Co-organized by — ISCEM; Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPMCAS); Beijing Research Center of System Engineering (BRCSE); KACEM; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University
V. 5th ICCEM — 2011 · Japan
Crisis and Emergency Management for a Survival Society: More Imaginative, Creative, and Implementable
Dates — 24–25 September 2011
Venue — Uji Campus, Kyoto University, Japan
Chair — Dr. Norio Okada
Supported by — Kyoto University; Chungbuk National University; Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Emergency Management Academic Program and Center for Disaster Risk Policy, Florida State University, USA; International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM); Kyoto University Global COE Program — Human Security Engineering for Asian Megacities
VI. 6th ICCEM — 2012 · USA
Global Considerations of Crisis, Disasters, and Risk
Dates — 17–18 October 2012
Venue — Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Chair — Dr. Audrey Heffron-Casserleigh
Co-hosted by — Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis (CEM-TP); Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program, Florida State University; National Crisis & Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University; KACEM; Korean Association for Public Security Administration
VII. 7th ICCEM — 2013 · Korea
Green City and Disaster Management for a Sustainable Global Society
Dates — 10–11 October 2013
Venue — Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea
Chair — Dr. Jae Eun Lee
Co-hosted by — ISCEM; The Council of Green Cheongju; Korea Disaster Relief Association; KACEM
Co-managed by — CEM-TP; Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Disaster Area Restoration Research Institute, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan; Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program & Center for Disaster Risk Policy, Florida State University, USA; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, CBNU; Research Institute of the Differently Abled Person's Right, Daejeon; Disaster Management Research Institute, Loving Center for Disaster Victims
Supported by — Cheongju City; Safe Today; Chungbuk National University
VIII. 8th ICCEM — 2014 · Portugal
Human Society's Universal Value and a Global Safety Network for Safe Civil Society
Dates — 9–10 October 2014
Venue — Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Chair — Dr. Goreti Marreiros
Hosted by — ISCEM
Co-managed by — CEM-TP; GECAD, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal; The Korea Policy Forum; Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Disaster Area Restoration Research Institute, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan; Center for Disaster Risk Policy & Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program, Florida State University, USA; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, CBNU; Disaster and Safety Research Institute, The Hope Institute; Disaster Management Research Institute, Loving Center for Disaster Victims
IX. 9th ICCEM — 2015 · Japan
Crisis and Emergency Management for Human Life, Human Dignity, and Human Rights
Dates — 12–14 September 2015
Venue — Gakushuin Women's College, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Chair — Dr. Keiko Kitagawa
Organized by — ISCEM
Managed by — Disaster Prevention & Mitigation Society, Saga University–Seitoku University, Japan; Japan Manner Meister Society; Japan Education & Learning Assistance Society; Seitoku DWAT Research Project, Japan; Disaster Area Restoration Research Institute, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan; The Korea Policy Forum; KACEM; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, CBNU; Disaster Management Research Institute, Loving Center for Disaster Victims; Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Safety and Emergency Management Research Center, Henan Polytechnic University, China; School of Emergency Management, Henan Polytechnic University, China; Center for Disaster Risk Policy, Florida State University, USA; Emergency Management & Homeland Security Program, Florida State University, USA; GECAD, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal; CEM-TP
X. 10th ICCEM — 2016 · Switzerland
Academic Development of Crisisonomy: Global Collaborative Efforts for Civil Protection
Dates — 17–18 June 2016
Venue — Conference Hall, Art Deco Hotel Montana, Lucerne, Switzerland
Chair — Dr. Jang Hee Lee
Co-hosted by — ISCEM; Program of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Florida State University, USA; The Korea Policy Forum (KOPOF); Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Seitoku DWAT Research Project, Japan; Center for Disaster Risk Policy, Florida State University; Center for Geospatial Research in Global Health Policy, UT Dallas, USA; CEM-TP; Disaster Area Restoration Research Institute, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan; Disaster Management Research Institute, Loving Center for Disaster Victims; Disaster Prevention & Mitigation Society, Saga University–Seitoku University, Japan; School of Emergency Management, Henan Polytechnic University, China; Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University
XI. 11th ICCEM — 2017 · Korea
Establishing Resilience and Global Disaster Preparedness Governance after Mega-disasters
Dates — 15–17 December 2017
Venue — Hotel Mudrin, Boryeong; Government Sejong Convention Center; School of Lifelong Education, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Chair — Dr. Jae Eun Lee
Organized by — ISCEM; CEM-TP; Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Korea (MOIS); National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, CBNU; Research Center of Safety and Emergency Management, Henan Polytechnic University; Institute of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Risk Management and Disaster Medicine, Saga University; KACEM; Korean Association for Governance Studies (KAGS); The Korea Policy Forum (KOPOF); Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI); Disaster Management Research Institute, Loving Center for Disaster Victims; Sustainable Urban Metabolism Research Taean
Managed by — The Council of Green Cheongju; Coexistent Development for Chungbuk & Sejong Cooperation Agency; Chungnam Disaster & Safety Research Center, Chungnam Institute
Sponsored by — National Research Foundation of Korea; Chungbuk National University; Chungnam Institute; Cheongju City
Supporting journals — Journal of Safety and Crisis Management; Crisisonomy; Disastronomy; Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
XII. 12th ICCEM — 2018 · Singapore
Dates — 22–24 November 2018
Venue — Sofitel Singapore City Centre, Singapore
Chair — Dr. Janet D. Dilling
Co-hosted by — ISCEM; CEM-TP; KACEM; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University; Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Research Institute of Human Ecology, Chungbuk National University
Managed by — Chungnam Institute; Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI)
Sponsored by — National Research Foundation of Korea; Chungbuk National University
XIII. 13th ICCEM — 2019 · Nepal
Resilient Society for Overcoming Catastrophic Disasters
Dates — 25–26 September 2019
Venue — Hotel Annapurna, Kathmandu, Nepal
Chair — Dr. Gajendra Sharma
Co-hosted by — ISCEM; Kathmandu University, Nepal; CEM-TP; National Crisis and Emergency Management Research Institute, Chungbuk National University; Institute of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Risk Management and Disaster Medicine, Saga University; KACEM; Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI); Disaster Management Research Institute, Loving Center for Disaster Victims
Co-managed by — Chungnam Disaster & Safety Research Center, Chungnam Institute
Sponsored by — National Research Foundation of Korea; Chungbuk National University
Supporting journals — Journal of Safety and Crisis Management; Crisisonomy; Disastronomy; Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
XIV. 14th ICCEM — 2020 · Korea · Hybrid
Global Crisis & Emergency Management Cooperative System for Overcoming Disasters, Pandemics, and Transnational Threats
Dates — 16–18 December 2020
Venue — Chungbuk National University, Korea — in person and online
Reach — 14 countries: Korea, China, Japan, USA, United Kingdom, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia, India, Chile
Chair — Dr. Jae Eun Lee
Co-hosted by — Asian Association for Crisisonomy (AAC); ISCEM; CEM-TP; UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR); Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC); National Crisisonomy Institute (NCI), Chungbuk National University; KACEM; Institute of System Analysis and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Managing Disaster Risk and Resilience Community, Seitoku University
Co-managed by — Loving Center for Disaster Victims; Incheon Studies Institute, Incheon National University; Korea Innovation Foundation; Korea Disaster Relief Association; Chungcheongbuk-do Council for Sustainable Development; The Council of Green Cheongju; Chungcheongbuk-do Disaster Safety Research Institute
Sponsored by — UNDRR; ADPC; National Research Foundation of Korea; Chungbuk National University; LINC+ (Leaders in Industry–University Cooperation), CBNU
Supporting journals — Crisisonomy; Disastronomy; Journal of Safety & Crisis Management; Korean Review of Crisis & Emergency Management; Contingencies & Crisis Management Review
XV. 15th ICCEM — 2021 · Korea
Climate Crisis and Disaster Management in Global Society: Security of Human, Economy, and Environment
Dates — 11–13 November 2021
Venue — Gaeshin Cultural Hall, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Chair — Dr. Jeong Yee Bae
Co-hosted by — ISCEM; National Crisisonomy Institute (NCI), CBNU; Chungbuk Bio-Health Industry Innovation Center; Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC); KACEM; CEM-TP; Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI); Institute of System Analysis and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Managing Disaster Risk and Resilience Community, Seitoku University, Japan
Co-managed by — Chungbuk Council for Sustainable Development; Cheongju Council for Sustainable Development; Loving Center for Disaster Victims (LCDV); Founding Preparatory Committee, Korean Association for Disastronomy (KAD); BK21+ Public Administration Project Team, CBNU
Sponsored by — Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS); National Research Foundation of Korea; Chungbuk National University
Supporting journals — Crisisonomy; Disastronomy; Korean Review of Crisis & Emergency Management; Journal of Safety and Crisis Management; Contingencies and Crisis Management Review
XVI. 16th ICCEM — 2022 · Thailand
Community Disaster Resilience and Crisisonomy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era
Dates — 12–14 December 2022
Venue — Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Bangkok, Thailand
Reach — Korea, China, Japan, USA, Thailand, Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia, with ADPC and TNDR
Chair — Mr. Hans Guttman (ADPC)
Co-hosted by — ISCEM; Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC); Thai Network for Disaster Resilience (TNDR); Korean Association for Disastronomy (KAD); KACEM; National Crisisonomy Institute, Chungbuk National University; Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Emergency Management and Public Policy, Jiangsu University, China; Center for International Education, Teikyo University of Science, Japan; Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan; CEM-TP; Disaster Management Research Center, Loving Center for Disaster Victims (LCDV); Cheongju Council for Sustainable Development; Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI)
Sponsored by — National Research Foundation of Korea; Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS); Chungbuk National University; Safe Today
Supporting journals — Journal of Safety and Crisis Management; Crisisonomy; Disastronomy; Korean Review of Crisis & Emergency Management; Contingencies and Crisis Management Review
XVII. 17th ICCEM — 2023 · China
Crisis & Emergency Management Strategy in the Era of Climate Crisis
Dates — 9–10 December 2023
Venue — Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Chair — Dr. An Chen
Co-hosted by — Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Asian Association for Crisisonomy (AAC); National Crisisonomy Institute (NCI), Chungbuk National University; KACEM; Managing Disaster Risk and Resilience Community, Seitoku University; Department of Structures and Environmental Engineering, PMAS Arid Agriculture University; Korean Association for Disastronomy; CEM-TP; Global Crisisonomy Institute
XVIII. 18th ICCEM — 2024 · Korea
Responding to Extreme Disasters and Securing Human Dignity in the Era of Climate Crisis
Dates — 12–14 July 2024
Venue — Chungbuk Free Economic Zone Building, Osong, Chungbuk Province, Korea
Reach — UNDRR, ADPC, Korea, China, Japan, USA, UK, Thailand, Nepal, Mongolia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Canada, Vietnam
Chair — Dr. Jae Eun Lee, Co-chairs — Dr. Gi Geun Yang · Dr. Hwang Woo Noh · Dr. Seo Yong Kim
Co-hosted by — ISCEM; Chungbuk Free Economic Zone Authority; ADPC; Korean Association for Disastronomy (KAD); KACEM; Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI); Chungcheongbuk-do; The Joongbu Daily Newspaper; National Crisisonomy Institute, Chungbuk National University; Strategy Research Institute of Local Government; Institute of System Analysis and Management, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Department of Structures and Environmental Engineering, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan; School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, UT Dallas, USA; Thai Network for Disaster Resilience; Disaster Humanities, Chosun University; Social Science Research Institute, Ajou University; Disaster Management Research Institute, LCDV; Chungbuk Carbon Neutrality Support Center; Chungcheongbuk-do Council for Sustainable Development; Chungbuk Development Corporation; Chungbuk Research Institute; Chungbuk Technopark; Chungbuk Business Agency; Cheongju Council for Sustainable Development; CEM-TP; Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation
Sponsored by — National Research Foundation of Korea; Chungbuk National University; Chungbuk Innovation Institute of Science & Technology; KS Wallcoverings; Namwon City; Safe Today; Korean Red Cross
Supporting journals — Journal of Safety & Crisis Management; Crisisonomy; Disastronomy; Global Crisisonomy Review; Korean Review of Crisis & Emergency Management; Korean Disastronomy Review; Contingencies & Crisis Management Review
XIX. 19th ICCEM — 2025 · USA
Dates — 18–20 September 2025
Venue — Green Hall, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Reach — USA, Korea, China, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Rwanda
Chair — Dr. Jennifer Holmes, Co-chair — Dr. Dohyeong Kim
Co-hosted by — School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, UT Dallas, USA; National Crisisonomy Institute, Chungbuk National University; Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI); KACEM; Department of Structures and Environmental Engineering, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan; CEM-TP
Sponsored by — School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, UT Dallas; Chungbuk National University
Supporting journals — Crisisonomy; Journal of Safety and Crisis Management; Contingencies and Crisis Management Review
XX. 20th ICCEM — 2026 · Korea
Navigating Polycrisis in the AI Era:Transforming Social Disruption and Climate Security into Resilient Governance
Dates — 5 (Sat.)–6 (Sun.) December 2026
Venue — Chungbuk National University & Chungbuk Bio Industry–Academy Convergence Institute, Korea
Chairs — Dr. Jae Eun Lee · Dr. Norio Okada · Dr. An Chen
Co-hosted by — International Society for Crisis & Emergency Management (ISCEM); National Crisisonomy Institute, Chungbuk National University; Chungbuk Bio Industry–Academy Convergence Institute; CEM-TP; School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, UT Dallas, USA; Global Crisisonomy Institute (GCI); KACEM; Korean Association for Disastronomy (KAD); Department of Structures and Environmental Engineering, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan
Sponsored by — National Research Foundation of Korea; Chungbuk National University
Supporting journals — Crisisonomy; Journal of Safety and Crisis Management; Contingencies and Crisis Management Review