Societal resilience
Societal resilience

Between resilience through education and resilience through war

Summary/Abstract: On the one side, societal resilience is the central concept of the current National Defense Strategy. Originating in studies on appropriate disaster response, this concept has become crucial in relation to hybrid threats. Societal resilience underlies another concept, that of state resilience, which has become a reference concept in recent years in the NATO. Societal resilience is vital for the community to withstand violent and high-impact events and to quickly return to normality and functionality. On the other side, Ukraine proves to be, under the conditions of the Russian invasion, are silient state that has cultivated its societal resilience for the last eight years. This resilience has developed in response to the violent military challenges of recent years and has led to the implementation of guidelines for optimal response to the challenges (Korostelina, 2020). However, Ukraine is not an example of good practice in strengthening societal resilience. Through this article, we aimed to analyze the two possible forms of strengthening resilience: through education and through war. The latter case can be illustrated by the example of Ukraine or Israel. In the former case, the adequate projection of the Romanian security documents could illustrate the phenomenon, as long as the public education policies meant to consolidate the societal resilience would result from our national defense strategy. This article is based on another article presented at a previous edition of the conference Redefining Community in Intercultural Context (Lesenciuc et al., 2018), in which we approached, starting from the discrepancy between strategies and public policies, the need to strengthen the other effective response to hybrid threats: culture of security.

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