Publication

This report explores the concept of resilience in peacebuilding and how “socio-ecological systems” – such as communities, societies or states – respond to violence. After thoroughly defining resilience, the text’s authors also stress its necessary flexibility and adaptability. These attributes matter in the peacebuilding field because too many peacebuilders focus on just one dominant form of response – transformation, or the changing of norms and structures that sustain regimes of violence. Practitioners in the field just might profit, the authors conclude, from embracing other approaches to their problems.