SuRe - Sustainable and Resilient societies
The fragility of social systems and their underlying institutional foundations being widely recognized, makes resilience an urgent item in the research agenda of contemporary social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
The related attempts at enhancing resilience are multilevel, ranging from individuals, communities, to organizations, to more concerted large-scale attempts addressing the resilience of entire policy domains or sectors.
Polycrisis and disruptive transformations happen at different levels, and SuRe will focus on demographic crisis; disasters; socio-economic crises; technological innovations; organizational crises.
Divergent as they might be, a common denominator uniting scholarly attempts, policy initiatives and other interventions is the insight that getting grip on resilience problems analytically and societally requires transcending disciplinary silos, monocausal explanations and single-issue policies and interventions.
SuRe intends to shed new light on urgent questions about the relationship between sustainability and resilience by providing advanced social sciences knowledge on the multi-levelness of these concepts and their complex relationship. SuRe aims to bring together scholars and students from different disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences and humanities whose work is related to resilience issues at the micro-level of individuals, the meso-level of collectivities (organizations, communities, families), the macro-level of societies and their institutions, as well as its conceptual or ethical dimensions. Equipped with this knowledge, participants will be trained in an inter- and transdisciplinary learning environment combining theory, methods and practice into group projects. The summer school will be held at the KNIR Institute in Rome, and it will be connected to disciplines as diverse as demography, history, sociology, psychology and economics. Top scholars from Europe will introduce key topics and they will work in close contact with the students to develop research projects.
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