The Institute's project on Resilience is an effort to
generate an interdisciplinary stream of research aimed at
identifying key metrics of adaptive capacity in local
communities overcome by armed conflict or major disasters. Recent challenges in Post-Conflict
Reconstruction (PCR) highlight
the need for a full understanding of a host nation’s
resilience to withstand the hardships of armed conflict.
The same holds true for communities impacted by natural
disasters. Academic research on resilience across
multiple disciplines (social sciences, engineering, biology)
has practical applications for data collection and analysis
to inter-agency planners in developing strategies to restore
the critical functions of civil society. This leads to
our foundational research questions:
1. What
attributes (human, social, cultural, political, economic,
technological) within
a community are essential to ensuring
resilience?
2. How are they
measured?
3.
How are they interrelated?
This research will provide a
deeper intellectual understanding of what makes communities
“bounce back” (or not) after a significant disturbance, and
culturally sensitive metrics for measuring resilience of
local populations that can be used for planning response,
and rebuilding. The knowledge
gained in this collaboration will also find immediate
application in other fields with high uncertainty including
emergency management and disaster response planning.
**Click
here to view our latest workshop report.
If you have questions about this project or wish to
participate,
please contact our project director, Nick Armstrong,
at the email
address or phone number below.
INSCT Fellow | Project Director:
Nick Armstrong
narmstro@maxwell.syr.edu
315-443-2033
