Building Community Resilience to Counter Violent Extremism

The post 9/11 terrorism and subsequent wave of violent extremism has generated a significant interest in the role of religion in both peace and conflict. Religion is a significant part of the lives of a significant majority the global population. This realization has led policy makers to seek ways in which religious leaders can and had impacted the community resilience towards violent extremism. Swat and Dir valleys have seen the brunt of violent extremism in the recent past. This extremism was generated and exploited by a few religiously motivated violent organizations. However, we believe there were religious leaders who opposed this surge of violent extremism in those specific communities. This research aims at finding out whether religious leaders mobilized the communities for countering violent extremism. In order to do that, a quantitative survey was designed whereby a community perception was measured. The data was collected from 180 respondents from both the districts of Dir valley, i.e., lower Dir and upper Dir. Our data shows that religious leaders played some role in building community resilience. In terms of bonding, they played a significant role. In terms of bridging, they also played a significant role. However, in terms of linking, the religious leaders played a little role.

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Building Community Resilience? Community Perspectives of the Countering Violent Extremism Pilot Program in Minneapolis/St. Paul

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism ◽

10.1080/1057610x.2018.1514054 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (11) ◽

pp. 1011-1042

Author(s):

Melissa J. Salyk-Virk

Keyword(s):

Community Resilience ◽

Pilot Program ◽

Community Perspectives ◽

Violent Extremism ◽

Building Community

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A Crowdsourcing based Information System Framework for Coordinated Disaster Management and Building Community Resilience

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking ◽

10.1145/3369740.3372730 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jayanta Basak ◽

Parama Bhaumik ◽

Siuli Roy ◽

Somprakash Bandyopadhyay

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Disaster Management ◽

Community Resilience ◽

System Framework ◽

Building Community

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What Do You Mean by Community Resilience? More Assets or Better Prepared?

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1017/dmp.2020.466 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Jianwen Wei ◽

Ziqiang Han ◽

Yang Han ◽

Zepeng Gong

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

2008 Wenchuan Earthquake ◽

Livelihood Assets ◽

The Family ◽

Building Community ◽

Household Livelihood ◽

Social Capitals

Abstract Objectives: Understanding people’s perception of community resilience to disaster is important. This study explores the correlations of household livelihood assets, the adopted household disaster preparedness activities, and individuals’ assessment of community resilience. Methods: The data was collected in 2018 by surveying a group of survivors affected by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China. The CART (Community Advancing Resilience Toolkit) was used to measure individuals’ perception of community resilience, while the livelihood assets included financial, physical, natural, human, and social capitals owned by the family, and the preparedness contained 13 activities. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models were used to test our hypotheses. Results: Social capital is consistently and positively associated with the overall individuals’ perceived community resilience, while the natural, human, and financial capitals’ effects are not significant. The awareness and participation preparedness activities are positively correlated with the perceived community resilience, but the material preparedness activities are not. Conclusions: Social capital and disaster preparedness activities are critical in building community resilience. Community resilience can be achieved by making the community more connected and by providing disaster preparedness interventions.

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The Role of For-Profit Firms in Disaster Management: A Typology

Journal of Macromarketing ◽

10.1177/02761467211020109 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 027614672110201

Author(s):

Swapan Deep Arora ◽

Anirban Chakraborty

Keyword(s):

Disaster Management ◽

Community Resilience ◽

Sustained Development ◽

For Profit ◽

State Initiative ◽

Marketing Orientation ◽

Disaster Studies ◽

Building Community ◽

Multiple Levels

Contemporary existence presents a duality of sustained development and recurrent disasters. Whereas disaster studies have closely examined public policy and state initiative, the role of for-profits is under-explored. Stakeholder theory and its integration with marketing orientation provide a theoretical underpinning for understanding the behavior of firms across contingencies, including disasters. Accordingly, we traverse the range of actions that these market entities exhibit in aiding disaster management and develop a comprehensive typology. The current COVID-19 pandemic provides a context for illustrating the practical exemplar actions as mapped to the proposed typology. We add to theory by examining the role of marketing philosophy and for-profits in tackling disasters at multiple levels: from micro-aspects of maintaining relations with specific stakeholders to the macro-objective of building community resilience. Further, the proposed typology helps practice and research by highlighting the range of firms' responses contributing to disaster management and building community resilience.

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