Methodological and ethical challenges in crisis and disaster research

Abstract

The history of civilization essentially represents an uninterrupted series of conflicts and periods of stability and peace, moving from radical to moderate streams, from barbarism to progress. Traditions of liberal learning have been severely shaken by the global 2008 economic crisis and the human intelligence became a weak instrument in front of the onslaught of new mega corporations willing to profit and seize new markets, undermining the objective rules of the morality. The security of the planet is at risk, and the managing, designing and dosing of the crises and disasters becomes part of the potential disintegration arsenal as a tool to seek new markets and implications. Disoriented and disillusioned people, by seeking new bases and values, easily succumb to impose “revolutions” that suppress the mind, emphasizing conflict paradigm that precisely opens massive manipulation gaps, spreading spiritual crisis and social pathology. Therefore, the twenty-first century society is in a continuous state of uncertainty, collapse, divisions and paranoia, which favours further spread of violence and insecurity, so crisis management remains as one of the global security barrier.