Resilience Research Centre

Adult Resilience Measure (ARM)

If you would like to measure your resilience, please complete the questions below. We do not store your responses. Please note, this is an online version of the ARM which we provide just for interest. If you would like to access the measure and manual for use in your own project, please go here
Research has shown that resilience – the ability to withstand, overcome, or adapt to adversity – depends, in part, on the availability and access to essential external resources (people who support us, opportunities to show others we can be responsible, etc). The survey you have just completed (the ARM) provides a general assessment of these external protective factors that facilitate resilience. If your score was lower than you would like, this indicates that you might not have access to these key resources. However, we can often find ways to connect with these resources or identify substitutes. If you would like to learn more about strategies to improve your resilience, here are some resources: Change Your World (book) and the 14 day resilience challenge. If you would like to read more about the ARM, see How to use. Please remember that this survey measures your ‘social-ecological’ resilience and therefore assesses the availability of external resources. If you would like to assess your internal qualities too, as part of a holistic view of resilience, please try the RRM. The RRM helps us understand how ‘rugged’ we are, which also enables our resilience.

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Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)

Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.

Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)

Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.

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