Paper short abstract:

Searching for common mechanisms amongst very diversified natures of crises, the endeavor of our presentation will be to invite researchers to search beyond the uniqueness of crisis dynamics and identify structural, generic ones. We present “invariant” dynamics as our first results.

Paper long abstract:

Experts from different disciplines predict that global crises will occur with shorter intervals. Delfraissy and Murgue (2012) named these intervals intercrisis. We posit that forthcoming decades may face an unprecedented situation of permanent states of global crises of different natures (financial, health, environmental, geopolitical…). According to Delfraissy and Murgue (2012), the response to global crises is mainly the responsibility of national and international public authorities. The preparation of this response with the help of academic researchers during intercrisis period represents a key element in the decision-making process of these authorities. Following Delfraissy (2017), we posit that international researchers from different disciplines need to be “prepared”, “activated” and “projected” within a short time to work together on the next emerging global crises. Paradoxically, very few research works have to this day tried to tend toward a transdisciplinary research focusing on common dynamics linked to different natures and contexts of crises. What is more, the word “crisis” itself is said to be overused, debased, and emptied of its meaning. We on the contrary do consider that the use of the word “crisis” often expresses invariant dynamics and that the crisis itself needs to be deeply and factually analyzed by researchers from different domains. Therefore, the complexity of global crises phenomenon calls for more transdisciplinary researches to create knowledge and decipher potential or even foreseeable contextualized dynamics. This research work aims at triggering original contributions by transdisciplinary researchers working on global crises, which may feed decision-making process of public authorities in the future.