Building Resilient Societies in Africa for the Future: Conceptual Considerations and Possible Resilience Constituents

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dc.contributor.authorBusingye, D. Janice
dc.contributor.authorTutu, Raymond
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-01T12:51:48Z
dc.date.available2018-11-01T12:51:48Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionThe article is available full texten_US
dc.description.abstractPredicting the future is usually a herculean task. But failing to plan for the future using scientific and reasonable prediction tools may guarantee failure of states and societies. African countries have been experiencing different challenges across sectors ranging from increasing development of informal settlements in urban centers, and youth unemployment to hunger, food insecurity, and prevalence of neglected tropical diseases. Many societies are vulnerable to various micro and macro scales shocks and stressors such as family disruptions, conflicts, climate variability, and technology-induced displacements. Such occurrences have been argued to be responsible for social disorganization and different forms of population movements. In this paper, we discuss these shocks and stressors and suggest the need for African countries to consider making resilience thinking central to the planning of their countries for the future. We argue that resilience should not be perceived as an alternative to development practice, but rather integral to development pursuit. We specifically focus on social resilience and socio-ecological resilience. Cognizant of the multidimensional nature of the concept of resilience, we do not intend for our ideas to be perceived as prescriptive. However, when particular attention is paid to resilience attributes like “stressors driving change,” “anticipatory learning,” and “social capital,” in attempting to answer the questions of resilience of what and resilience to what?, Africa will be on its way to building resilient societiesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/1367
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJFSen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectResilienceen_US
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goalsen_US
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectPlanning.en_US
dc.titleBuilding Resilient Societies in Africa for the Future: Conceptual Considerations and Possible Resilience Constituentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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