Peacebuilding and resilience : how society responds to violence / Lauren Van Metre and Jason Calder.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Van Metre, Lauren, author.

Calder, Jason S., author.

Contributor:

United States Institute of Peace, issuing body.

Series:

Peaceworks ; no. 121.

Peaceworks ; no. 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resilience (Personality trait).

Peace-building.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 pages) : one illustration.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Institute of Peace, 2016.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"The sense is growing that strengthening a society's capacity to overcome violent shock and communal stressors could play a key role in preventing conflict and achieving a more sustainable postconflict recovery. Thus, researchers and practitioners in the fields of peacebuilding and conflict resolution have begun to work together to test the concept of resilience. This report defines the concept and, using a socioecological lens, examines its potential application in peacebuilding practice. Case studies are explored to identify the challenges and opportunities in changing a regime of violence to a regime of peace. The analysis shows that for a successful transformation to occur, peacebuilding approaches need to focus on building a socioecological system's capacity to absorb and adapt to violence and mitigate the effects of slow, long-term stressors"--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction

Resilience : societal response to stressors and shocks

Case studies

Socioecological systems

Resilience of states and societies, communities, and individuals

Resilience and peacebuilding

Challenges

Operationalization

Conclusions and recommendations.

Notes:

"September 2016"--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-31).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (USIP, viewed January 24, 2017).

OCLC:

969972552