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Using Games in Community Disaster Prevention Exercises

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  • Katsuya Yamori

    (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)

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Currently, there is a growing interest in disaster prevention exercises such as games, debates, workshops, and “town walks” that involve the active participation of community members as an alternative to seminars in which disaster prevention experts simply share their knowledge and skills. We have developed a disaster prevention game called Crossroad for use in local disaster prevention programs. It is a group learning game, in which players read cards with a scenario written on each card. The scenarios were derived from extensive, focus-group interviews with disaster veterans of the Kobe Earthquake of 1995 that killed more than 6400 people and described the dilemmas faced by these veterans. To deal with the dilemma, each player was required to make a “Yes” or No decision on two conflicting alternatives. We used Crossroad as a part of tsunami disaster prevention, community-building workshops for citizens of Kishiwada city in Osaka, Japan. The results suggested the importance of motivating local people to find a socially “viable” solution through their own strength, rather than forcing a community to accept a universally “correct” solution prescribed in advance by outsiders. It is concluded that the Crossroad game can be used effectively as a new communication medium to promote the active participation of community members.

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  • Katsuya Yamori, 2012. "Using Games in Community Disaster Prevention Exercises," Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 571-583, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:grdene:v:21:y:2012:i:4:d:10.1007_s10726-011-9227-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10726-011-9227-9
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    1. Norio Okada & Liping Fang & D. Marc Kilgour, 2013. "Community-based Decision Making in Japan," Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, vol. 22(1), pages 45-52, January.
    2. Subhajyoti Samaddar & Norio Okada & Junho Choi & Hirokazu Tatano, 2017. "What constitutes successful participatory disaster risk management? Insights from post-earthquake reconstruction work in rural Gujarat, India," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 85(1), pages 111-138, January.

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