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Welcome to the Psychosocial Resilience Wiki.

This resource explores one of the most important — and often misunderstood — concepts of our time: resilience.

Resilience is a word we hear everywhere — in psychology, in business, in climate science, and in disaster management. But what does it really mean? And why does it matter so deeply in today’s turbulent world?

[Part 1: What is Resilience?]

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At its heart, resilience is about how systems — whether individuals, communities, or entire societies — respond to disruption.

Some think of resilience as the ability to resist shocks and quickly return to normal. Others see it as the capacity to absorb stress while holding steady. More dynamic perspectives emphasise the ability to adapt to changing conditions, or even to transform in response to disruption.

Resilience, then, isn’t just about bouncing back. It can also mean bouncing forward. And it’s always multi-layered, emerging from interactions between our biology, our psychology, our social bonds, and the ecological systems we depend on.

[Part 2: From Individuals to Societies]

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Most people are familiar with psychological resilience — the ability of individuals to manage distress, cope with hardship, and find meaning in adversity.

But resilience also operates at larger scales. Communities, cities, and entire societies can be more or less resilient. This is where we encounter terms like social resilience, community resilience, urban resilience, societal resilience, and social-ecological resilience.

These terms overlap, and their definitions are contested. But taken together, they point to a crucial insight: how societies weather disruption depends on both their outer infrastructure and their inner life.

[Part 3: Why the Psychosocial Dimension Matters - music becomes a bit more upbeat, positive]

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This wiki places special emphasis on how the psychosocial and the structural dimensions of resilience interact.

By psychosocial, we mean the inner infrastructure of societies: the qualities of mind, culture, and relationship that shape how people respond to challenge. It includes our cognition and emotions, our unconscious tendencies, our identities and collective beliefs.