The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)

Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeFaculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs

Institutions, policy, foresight, diplomacy, law and the records they run on

Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs

A shared risk is governed by whoever holds the mandate, and the mandate is read from records: the treaty's depositary page, the organisation's member list, the alert a national authority issues.

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Governance, Policy and International Affairs: departments, disciplines and courses. Drawn as an institutional network.

Open, 3
In preparation, 7
Approved for authoring, 16
Related disciplines, 1 link

From the Academy atlas and the curriculum: primary courses only; numbers mark departments.

Twin builder and simulatorThe Horn of Africa and the Nile basin states4 twin generators, 10 layers, 3 instruments

disciplines in 5 departments: 18
courses open now, 7 in preparation: 3
countries: 13

Twin figures for the Horn of Africa and the Nile basin states, counted from its layers at their stated dates.

Twin builder and simulator.

The faculty's twin of Horn of Africa on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.

The Horn of Africa and the Nile basin states, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Uganda and neighbours. Flat map of the same data: the 13 countries on a graticule and the numbers below. The globe opens on devices with WebGL once its library has been checked; the live alerts, events and divisions load in the globe on request, each with its data date.

13 countries
First-level divisions, geoBoundaries gbOpen with a licence gate per boundary: live, loads in the twin
Disaster alerts, GDACS live: live, loads in the twin
Natural events, NASA EONET live: live, loads in the twin

Credits and dates per layer are listed under the stage. Countries are raised on the globe for legibility.

Drag to turn the globe, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows turn, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.

Flat map of the same data: the 13 countries on a graticule and the numbers below. The globe opens on devices with WebGL once its library has been checked; the live alerts, events and divisions load in the globe on request, each with its data date.

Foresight horizon scan

A horizon scan on the live signals of the region: the GDACS alerts and EONET events the stage loads are the seed signals; you place each on an impact and likelihood grid and in one of three time horizons, and the scan record lists every placed signal with its source.

Loads in the twin: open the alert and event layers to seed signals from the live feeds, select a signal, then place it by likelihood, impact and horizon. The grid and the record recompute in your browser; nothing is scored.

No signals yet: open the alert and event layers in the twin.

Scan No signal placed.

Likelihood \ impact	Low	Medium	High
Low	0	0	0
Medium	0	0	0
High	0	0	0

Horizon	Signals
Within a year	0
One to five years	0
Beyond five years	0

Domain	Signals

Signal	Placed	Source

A structured exercise on seeded signals you classify yourself, after the horizon scanning method of the Futures Toolkit; the grid counts placements, never a score, and nothing here is a prediction. A structured exercise on seeded signals you classify, never a prediction. Alerts and events are indicative, never a substitute for national warnings. Method: Government Office for Science (2017), The Futures Toolkit: Tools for Futures Thinking and Foresight Across UK Government (horizon scanning and the three horizons framing); Schultz, W. L. (2006), The cultural contradictions of managing change: using horizon scanning in an evidence-based policy context, Foresight 8(4).

Policy timeline

One dated timeline per country of the box: the GDACS alert episodes and EONET events the stage loads, assigned to a country by where their point falls in the Natural Earth polygons, filtered by the country you select; the index and membership columns stay empty until their extracts and rows exist.

Loads in the twin: open the alert and event layers; each dated record is assigned to the country whose published polygon contains its point and listed below. Select a country to filter the timeline and turn the globe to it.

Timeline No dated events yet: open the alert and event layers in the twin.

Date	Country	Record	Source

Country	ISO3	Population estimate (Natural Earth)	INFORM Risk Index	Memberships
Dem. Rep. Congo	COD	86,790,567	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Djibouti	DJI	973,560	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Eritrea	ERI	6,081,196	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Ethiopia	ETH	112,078,730	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Kenya	KEN	52,573,973	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
S. Sudan	SDS	11,062,113	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Saudi Arabia	SAU	34,268,528	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Somalia	SOM	10,192,317.3	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Somaliland	SOL	5,096,159	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Sudan	SDN	42,813,238	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Tanzania	TZA	58,005,463	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Uganda	UGA	44,269,594	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list
Yemen	YEM	29,161,922	not available: no release extract committed (jrc.inform.risk)	no row records a member list

A filtered timeline of credited records; the country assignment is a point in polygon test against boundaries that imply no position on any territory; no index value and no membership is asserted from memory. The INFORM column waits for its release extract and will be shown as published. Institution filters stay empty until a row records a member list. Method: Source records as credited per layer: GDACS (European Commission JRC and UN OCHA), NASA EONET, Natural Earth.

Membership matrix

The 13 countries of the box against the institutions the region's governance runs through: UN bodies (from the UNdata snapshot once its series are named), IGAD, the African Union, the East African Community and the Nile Basin Initiative; below it the multilateral treaties most read in the region, each named with the address of its status page in the UN Treaty Collection.

Every membership cell is empty until the register row that admits its source exists. Select a country to turn the globe to it; select an institution to see why its reach cannot be drawn yet.

Selection 13 countries, 5 institutions, 6 treaties named; no cell filled from memory.


empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list
empty: series not yet named or snapshotted (un.data.public-pages)	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list	empty: no register row records its member list

Treaty	Adopted	Status
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	1992	not copied: read on the depositary's page at treaties.un.org (un.treaty-collection admits links only)
Paris Agreement	2015	not copied: read on the depositary's page at treaties.un.org (un.treaty-collection admits links only)
Convention on Biological Diversity	1992	not copied: read on the depositary's page at treaties.un.org (un.treaty-collection admits links only)
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification	1994	not copied: read on the depositary's page at treaties.un.org (un.treaty-collection admits links only)
Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses	1997	not copied: read on the depositary's page at treaties.un.org (un.treaty-collection admits links only)
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees	1951	not copied: read on the depositary's page at treaties.un.org (un.treaty-collection admits links only)

A lookup matrix that ships empty: no cell is filled from memory, every cell waits for the register row that admits its source; treaty status is never shown, only named and pointed to. Every membership cell is empty until its row exists. Treaty status is never shown, only where the Collection publishes it. Method: UNdata series as cited per snapshot; each organisation's published member list per its row; the UN Treaty Collection is pointed to, never copied.

The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).

What the faculty teaches.

On the Horn of Africa and the Nile basin the stage carries countries as Natural Earth publishes them, first-level divisions behind a licence gate per boundary, the GDACS and EONET feeds as dated signals, a horizon scan, a policy timeline and a membership matrix that ships empty because no row yet admits a member list, under ISO 31000:2018, ISO 37000:2021 and the Sendai Framework. A graduate can map who holds a mandate and write an assessment in which nothing is asserted without its record.

Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs groups 18 disciplines into 5 departments. 3 of the 10 courses whose primary discipline is here are open for enrolment and the rest are in preparation; all of them are taught on the Risk Academy main site, so your record stays in one place.

5 departments, 18 disciplines.

Numbered as on the faculty figure at the top of the page. Each card counts the department's disciplines and the courses whose primary discipline is there.

Disciplines by status.

Each discipline once, in its department. A mark is one primary course, filled when it is open.

Where the field is moving.

Emerging areas, the technologies changing practice and the bodies that set the field's methods, from the faculty's expert review. Named for orientation; none of them endorses the Academy.

What is changing now.

The newest developments cited on the faculty's discipline pages, sources checked on 16 October 2026. Each links to its discipline and its source.

The faculty hub.

News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.

Where to start, and where it leads.

The faculty's entry course, then its flagship pathways and the Academy flagship in Nexus-Based Risk Management.

3 open, 7 in preparation.

Courses with their primary discipline in this faculty. Open courses link to the catalogue; the others are listed so you can plan.

The standards it teaches toward.

The Nexus Standards subsites whose standards the faculty's disciplines teach, by the Academy's proposed mapping.

Where these subjects are practised.

Where the faculty practises.

Lab	What you do in it	Courses using it
Map lab	Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps	3
Network lab	Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades	2
Trigger lab	Set forecast thresholds, pre-agreed actions and messages	1
Geo quiz	Check spatial reasoning on where hazards and systems meet	1

Nexus programmes that span faculties.

Each programme joins disciplines from more than one faculty and is hosted by an institute on the main site; it is listed on every faculty it spans.

Institutes that convene the faculty.

Institute

Institute for Climate and Nature Risk

The institute convenes the disciplines that study climate and nature risk from the physical science to the balance sheet.

Institute

Institute for Technology, Society and Risk

The institute convenes the technology lens on every domain: how technologies help manage risk, what risks they create and how they are governed.

Terms used on this page.

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Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs

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Each department lists its disciplines, courses and pathways; each discipline its scope, labs, technology and key terms.

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