The Assessment of Multisystemic Resilience in Conflict-Affected Populations

Violent social conflicts are driven by and contribute to a cascade of stressors and shocks that can entirely overwhelm individuals, households, communities, and institutions, leading to loss of life and protracted suffering. In this context, humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development organizations...

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Published inMultisystemic Resilience
Main Authors Lordos, Alexandros, Hyslop, Daniel
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Oxford University Press 16.04.2021
Subjects
development nexus
peacebuilding
sustainable livelihoods framework
conflict exposure
multilevel assessment
multisystemic resilience
humanitarian
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Summary:Violent social conflicts are driven by and contribute to a cascade of stressors and shocks that can entirely overwhelm individuals, households, communities, and institutions, leading to loss of life and protracted suffering. In this context, humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development organizations have begun utilizing a resilience lens to inform efforts for conflict prevention and postconflict recovery, while the scholarly community is conducting its own investigations to understand what can drive resilience in conflict-affected populations. In this chapter, the authors pull together these diverse strands of the practitioner and scholarly conflict resilience literature, to delineate a set of principles that can guide future work. Assessment of resilience in conflict-affected populations should integrate systemwide thinking with agent-focused research, utilize mixed-method approaches, leverage analytic methods that are suitable for detection of cross-systemic linkages, and engage with stakeholders across multiple systems and levels to maximize resilience-enhancing insight, planning and action.
ISBN:0190095881
9780190095888
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190095888.003.0023