Focal Report 6: Risk Analysis

Resilience - Trends in Policy and Research

Author(s): Corinne Bara, Gabriel Brönnimann
Series: CRN Reports
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

This focal report looks at the way selected countries define and use resilience in the area of national security. The report's first part presents the results of a government monitoring: Recent policy documents from selected countries were analyzed focusing on resilience definitions, relevance, and impact on government programs. The second part looks at recent attempts to assess and measure resilience both in academia and in national security policy. The third part draws on the insights of the two previous parts to discuss possible lessons for Switzerland.

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