Crisis, escalation and decision-making under pressure

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology programme at Newspeak House, open to faculty, fellows, and fellowship candidates only.

​Session by Faculty member Alex Vince

​Institutions behave differently in a crisis. Attention narrows, risk appetite changes, people bypass normal process, and short-term fixes can create long-term vulnerability. A lot of strategy is understanding how to act under pressure without destroying your position later.

​I can help fellows think through crisis dynamics: escalation, accountability, political attention, operational grip, communications, trade-offs, and the point at which stabilising the system starts to undermine future leverage.

​This is an area where serious games are particularly valuable, because they let people practise pressure before the real crisis arrives.

​Recording: the whole session will be recorded.