Impact Trust • Working glossary
Synchronisation (of crises)
Different crises peaking or unfolding at the same time and in step with each other, rather than separately or at different moments.
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Our Take
Captures something important that 'compound risk' does not: synchronisation implies crises are not just co-occurring but are causally linked in their timing. Explains why 'we managed last time' is increasingly unreliable - past crises arrived sequentially; current crises synchronise, overwhelming response capacity designed for one-at-a-time.
Examples of Use
Cascade Institute
Synonyms/Variants
Crisis alignment; Temporal clustering; Converging crises; Crisis resonance
Typical everyday wording
Crises lining up because they are connected.
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