Explaining the Social Crisis Management Model with a Security Approach in Sistan and Baluchistan Province

In fact the crisis is a large and specific psychosocial stressor that disrupts conventional patterns of life and social reactions and creates new needs with physical and financial injuries threats and dangers. Crisis management as a systematic process is obliged to identify and predict potential crises in different areas with proper understanding of the past, present and future and then formulate active preventive systems against them. So, there should always be asset of plans and practical programs to deal with future crises in order to be prepared to face unpredictable events for managers; therefore, crises management emphasizes the necessity for regular prediction and preparation to deal with those internal and external issues that seriously threaten the life of the organization.

The present study aims at presenting a social crisis management model with a security approach in Sistan and Baluchistan province. For this reason, 30 crisis management officials of the province were interviewed deeply using qualitative method and data-focused theory. The data set which were collected after continuous comparison process of data and open, axial and selective coding, were organized into five identity, influence and 3 security-political, managerial and social-cultural classes.

The final result of data analysis collected in the form of social crisis management model with security approach in Sistan and Baluchistan province was presented. This model aims at explaining the important features and indices of each crisis related to the model according to environmental conditions of Sistan and Baluchistan province.

In fact, these findings show social-security crisis management perspective of Sistan and Baluchistan province that can be used as a model for policymaking and decision-making in crisis situations.