Resilience Research Centre

Frequently Asked Questions

No permission is required nor given for the use of the measure for activities like research or teaching. For commercial purposes, please see the manual.

The measure is free to use for not-for-profit purposes. For commercial uses, please see the manual.

Anyone can use the measure provided they have read the accompanying manual carefully.

About 5 minutes, if administered in the participant’s native language and if the participant does not have literacy/comprehension difficulties.

Sum the scores of respondents. See the section in the manual on scoring for more information.

Yes, in the original measure there are 5. See the section in the manual on scoring for more information.

We do not currently recommend cut-off/thresholds for the measure.

Yes, we encourage this. However, you should describe and justify any changes you make and note that any modifications challenge the validity of the measure and you should be prepared to investigate this yourself. Please feel free to get in touch with us about this if you would like support.

At present, the measure is only available in a few languages (listed in our Downloads). You are welcome to translate the measure and if you do, please send us a copy so we can share this with others. We recommend any translations undergo back-translation to ensure accuracy. See the translation section above for further information.

We developed the measure with participants that were 18-30. Therefore, the measure is good to use with this group. If you plan to use the measure with older or younger individuals, please get in touch with us.

Our staff are committed to offering tools and services for research and evaluation. Although the measure will always be available to researchers at no cost, we are no longer able to offer consultation for free. Due to the high volume of requests, any further help will be offered for a fee in order to recover the cost of staff time. To have our staff consult on one of your projects, please fill out the form on this page.

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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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