why rise,
why now
our
mission
The RISE Network is an inter-university collaborative convergence network determined to improve and coordinate university interventions in pre and post disaster environments. The RISE Network wants to better understand community resilience and the role of institutions of higher education in disasters by developing a…
New Architecture of Relationships
A new ethic of university / community collaborations
New paradigm to guide university interventions in disasters
Of a MESONET of universities serving as radars of vulnerabilities and capacities across regions of the US
Preestablished protocols for universities’ interactions with internal and external actors
The RISE Network’s Story
Objectives of the RISE Network
1. Develop a new ethic of university-community (internal and external) interactions based on deep understanding, mutual respect and reciprocity.
2. Change the paradigm of university interventions in pre and post disaster interventions from a expert based, asymmetrical power based, unilateral actions to an extended peer community engagement based on humility and the just co production and sharing of knowledge
3. A new architecture of relationships that can lower the levels of ignorance and managing the uncertainties related to pre and post disaster environments
4. To serve as a meso-net of university “radars” that leaves no blind spots in enhancing the resilience of all, from the individual to the global.
