THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE AS A BROADER METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN SECURITY IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES
THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE AS A BROADER METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN SECURITY IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Summary/Abstract: With respect to the set of values entrenched in the concept of human security,nominal and non-nominal, it is justified to argue about local community as the mostconvenient framework or context, not just for assessment of human security- identification,analysis and evaluation of security risks and threats, but also for its treatment, or, in otherwords, specific action in order to accomplish, as positive as it can be, adaptation, mitigationor elimination of unsecure phenomena, including increasing security and safety. Towards thatgoal, having in mind the urgent need for innovative methodological approach, as a result ofan inevitable reconceptualization of human security itself, in the recent researches focuswas most commonly on increasing community preparedness, by participatory mechanismsin which way their members are involved in all phases of assessment of human security andfurther specific activities. With appreciation for the practical contribution that application ofCommunity-based participatory research (CBPR), and related community preparedness, orreadiness, as research tools, have on assessment of actual parameters of human security inlocal community, as much as on defining and formulating guidelines for further navigatingit’s members toward increasing safety and security, the authors suggest broadening of thismethodological approach by including the concept of resilience. Endeavouring to strengthenthe resilience of local communities (meaning, in this context, ability of a community toprevail existing problems with minimum of negative consequences, and to revert in stateof normal functioning – safe and secure atmosphere from the perspective of its members)could potentially lead to valuable and specific effects in practice- by analogy with crisismanagement- in response and recovery phases.

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