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Emergency Management in Iceland and Sweden. The conference is in English and open to all.
Moderator: Ragnar Þorvarðarson, Chair of the Reykjavík Red Cross Branch
15:00 Welcome: Siv Friðleifsdóttir, Chair of the Project Nordic Welfare Watch, Ministry of Welfare
15:05 Erna Danielsson, Docent, Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University
Risk and Crisis Research in Social Science
15:35 Carin Björngren Cuadra, Associate professor, School of Social Work, Lund University
The Swedish Emergency Management System: The Perspective of the Front Line Staff in Public Social Services
16:05 Coffee
16:15 Guðrún Jóhannesdóttir, Project manager at the Civil protection Department Community based disaster risk reduction
16:30 Víðir Reynisson, Chief Inspector, South Iceland Police
Preparing, responding and building back better. Joint approach of the south Iceland local authorities for more resilient society
16:45 Panel discussion: The part played by Social Services in Emergency Managament in Iceland
Gyða Hjartardóttir, Specialist in Social Services, Icelandic Association of Local and Regional Governments
Kristján Sturluson, Director of Administration, Hafnarfjörður municipality
Ragnheiður Hergeirsdóttir, Director, Directorate of Labour in South Iceland
Stefán Eiríksson, Executive Director, Department of Welfare, City of Reykjavík
17:00 Closing
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