The course introduces students to concepts and case studies distilled from the global experience of disaster response and resilience. It has four main situational focal points: cyber, pandemic, climate change, and drought. It is multi-disciplinary in approach, with a strong emphasis on human capital. It analyses the integration from the outset of first order effects (cyber shutdowns, disease, ocean surges, bushfires) with second and third order effects in business, social life and national economies. While the course has a primary focus on disaster preparedness and resilience, the material is equally relevant to the resilience needs of political and economic shocks, including protracted military confrontations or war. The course steers participants to reliance on globally available IT-based analysis, research and communications as vital enablers of more effective response. International connectivity and advanced ICTs can be one source of disaster to economic shock but they are a much bigger part of all solutions.