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SHIELD
Crisis Simulation
Workshop
A live, immersive exercise that pressure-tests your organisation's ability to detect, respond to, and counter information manipulation, disinformation campaigns, and digital threats - before the real thing hits.
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What It Is
When Information Becomes the Weapon
Shield is built around a core reality: in today's threat environment, the first attack is rarely physical. It is informational. Fabricated narratives go viral before your team has drafted a response. Coordinated digital campaigns erode trust before a single fact is verified. Platforms are weaponised. Audiences are manipulated. And your organisation is expected to navigate all of it - in real time.
The workshop places participants inside a live, fictional crisis ecosystem where information manipulation and digital tactics drive the pressure. Teams must identify disinformation as it spreads, counter coordinated attacks across platforms, manage media escalation, and make high-stakes communications decisions under sustained, compounding uncertainty.
By the end, they have lived through an information crisis - and know exactly where their organisation's vulnerabilities are before a real one exploits them.
What Gets Tested
- Disinformation detection - identifying fabricated narratives and coordinated inauthentic behaviour as they spread in real time
- Narrative counter-strategy - developing and deploying effective responses to information attacks without amplifying them
- Platform-level digital tactics - understanding how social media is weaponised and how to respond operationally
- Coordinated smear campaigns - managing reputational attacks driven by digital manipulation and targeted harassment
- Media escalation - press calls, hostile interviews, and live broadcast moments triggered by an information crisis
- Cyberattack simulation - data breach response and IT coordination under simultaneous digital pressure
- Political and stakeholder escalation - government interference and external pressure amplified by information warfare
- Internal coordination under uncertainty - decision-making and role clarity when the information environment is contested
"The organisations that survive an information crisis are not the ones with the best plan - they're the ones who have already practised being wrong, under pressure, when the narrative is moving faster than the facts."
Built For
Civil Society & Media Organisations
NGOs, advocacy groups, and media outlets operating in high-risk information environments where disinformation and digital attacks are part of the threat landscape.
International Bodies & Donors
UN agencies, INGOs, and diplomatic missions seeking to build partner resilience against information manipulation in fragile or conflict-affected settings.
Government & Public Institutions
Ministries, regulatory bodies, and public agencies exposed to coordinated disinformation campaigns, platform-level attacks, and politically motivated information warfare.
Ready to stress-test your organisation's information resilience?
Shield is available as a standalone workshop or as part of a broader capacity-building programme on information manipulation and digital tactics. Fully customisable to your context, sector, and threat environment.
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