ABSTRACT

Research on crisis situations and collaborative responses has created several useful categorizations to help distinguish between different types of crises and different types of responses. These frames matter for practitioners as conceptual categorizations shape practical collaborations, and they matter for scholars as they determine our case selection and analysis. However, not every crisis and its response may be so easily slotted into a specific category, as evidenced in this chapter examining the Dutch local response to the global surge in ISIS supporters. Both designing and understanding this collaborative crisis response required a transboundary approach, which switched between different framings of the crisis and the mode of collaboration in order to ensure richer insight of the situation and a comprehensive response.