Issue Title / Theme: Resilience in an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty
From Preparedness to Proactive Prevention
Short Description:
The second issue of the ISRM Saudi Journal will explore how organizations, leaders, and societies can strengthen their ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to an increasingly uncertain geopolitical and security environment.
The issue will bring together research and practical experience, with particular interest in lessons from the region and their implications for resilience, security, risk management, and decision-making. We welcome academic research as well as practitioner perspectives, case studies, lessons learned, and experience from the field.
Suggested Sub-Themes:
- Geopolitical risk and its impact on organizations and decision-making
- Organizational, societal, and national resilience
- Proactive prevention, preparedness, and early warning
- Security, emerging threats, and evolving threat environments
- Critical infrastructure resilience and protection
- Business continuity and crisis management
- Supply-chain, energy, and economic resilience
- Cybersecurity, AI-enabled threats, and information risks
- Situational awareness and intelligence for decision-making
- Leadership and decision-making under pressure and uncertainty
- Risk intelligence, agility, and adaptive capacity
- Presilience: anticipating, adapting, and thriving through disruption
- Lessons learned and case studies from real events and disruptions
Who Can Contribute:
Researchers, practitioners, executives, risk and security professionals, academics, policymakers, and other professionals with relevant experience or insights.
We particularly want to encourage real cases and practitioner contributions. Contributors do not need to approach the journal only from an academic perspective. If someone has dealt with a disruption, developed a solution, learned from an incident, or has a perspective that others can learn from, we want to provide a space for that experience.
- Languages: Submissions are welcomed in both Arabic and English.
- Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026
- Issue Release: 15 December 2026
