resilience + sustainability

Resiliency encompasses both the ability of society and systems to survive and weather conflict and the ability of individuals (including aid workers and indigenous actors) to avoid burnout, maintain adherence to goals and values, and tolerate difficult or impossible situations psychologically.

 

Relevant Articles and Authority:

Practicing Mindfulness at the Checkpoint is a recent article by a noted resiliency expert discusses mindfulness and resiliency as an act of social change in the context of working on trauma and post-traumatic effects with Palestinians and with aid workers in the West Bank and Palestinian Territories after the Second Intifada. 

“Resilience in Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Natural Disasters.” Patricia H. Longstaff, Ines Mergel, & Nicholas J. Armstrong (eds) (2009).

“Building Resilient Communities: A Preliminary Framework for Assessment.” Patricia H. Longstaff, Nicholas J. Armstrong, Keli A. Perrin, Whitney May Parker, and Matthew Hidek. Homeland Security Affairs, 6 (3). September 2010

A Framework for Resilience in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations is a USAID and Columbia University SIPA 2013 report offering an analysis of resiliency from analysis of microcosms of political, economic, security, social, and environmental subsystems.

Making Sense of Resilience in Peace-building Contexts: Approaches, Applications, Implications is a paper based on a 2012 speech at the Geneva Peace-building Platform, linking resiliency and peace-building explicitly.

Psychological Distress, Depression, Anxiety, and Burnout among International Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Longitudinal Study  is a 2012 study of international NGOs and burnout among aid and development workers

Resilience as a Peacebuilding Practice: To Realism from Idealism is a U.S. Institute of Peace report linking resilience to positive social change and development of peaceful contexts.