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Resilient Systems, Resilient Communities emerges from the University of Alberta interdisciplinary research network, Intersections of Sustainability, which focuses on the relationship between water governance, climate change, and community futures. The aim of the research network is to bring a whole-system approach to developing critical, solutions-driven research in partnership with government agencies, academic partners, civic organizations, policy makers, industry actors and non-government organizations. This collection of essays by members of the network extends these aims by providing a compendium of work that engages resilience thinking, a concept that continues to play a central role in academic and policy-making circles.

This paper introduces a questionnaire as a measurement tool that will help evaluate the armed forces' resilience to hybrid interference. It is based on the previously developed conceptualisation of resilience as consisting of the national, social, institutional, and psychological dimensions and guides the reader through the operationalisation of the corresponding variables in the form of a questionnaire to be distributed within different groups of the Czech Armed Forces.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges faced in leading a UK police force through a period of complex and competing political, financial, cultural, structural and operational constraints. It explores the personal skills, qualities and capabilities leaders need to respond to such challenges, both now and in the future and argues that the greatest test for police leaders in the next decade will be personal and organisational resilience.


Design/methodology/approach
It is a personal account of the resilience required in a challenging and senior police leadership role and is underpinned with relevant literature in the field of resilient leadership.


Findings
It identifies that whilst resources are diminishing, demand is increasing, public expectation continues to grow and police leaders are now openly criticised in a way that they would never have encountered in the past, understanding this in itself is not enough. What is needed is a tailored plan for both individual police leaders and organisations if they are going to survive. It argues that failure to do so will result in increasingly diminishing health and well-being and a drain of talent at all levels of the police service.


Originality/value
The paper provides a unique insight into leadership in a complex period in Policing in the UK.

Zusammenfassung


Hintergrund


Der Begriff der Resilienz wird im Alltag häufig im Sinn einer Persönlichkeitseigenschaft verwendet: Eine Person ist resilient und damit widerstandsfähig gegenüber Belastungen. Und auch im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs wird nicht eindeutig zwischen Resilienz als Eigenschaft, Prozess oder Outcome unterschieden.


Fragestellung


Gibt es so etwas wie eine "resiliente Persönlichkeit"?


Methode


Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Befunde werden verschiedene mögliche Zusammenhänge von Resilienz und Persönlichkeit vorgestellt. Dabei wird unterschieden zwischen 1) Resilienz als Synonym für ein komplexes Persönlichkeitskonstrukt, 2) einer Prädiktion von Resilienz durch spezifische Persönlichkeitseigenschaften, 3) einer Interaktion von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und Situation, und 4) einer Rückwirkung von Resilienzerfahrungen auf die Persönlichkeit.


Schlussfolgerung


Auch wenn es für die individuelle Resilienz förderlich sein kann, bestimmte Aspekte der Persönlichkeit zu stärken, ist im Rahmen eines zeitlich und situativ dynamischen Resilienzkonzepts die Hypothese einer grundsätzlich "resilienten Persönlichkeit" weder empirisch begründet noch sinnvoll.

Now more than ever, leaders need to focus on what matters most - the long-term resilience of people and the planet - the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability urged in its report presented on 30 January 2012 to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Addis Ababa. The 22-member Panel, established by the Secretary-General in August 2010 to formulate a new blueprint for sustainable development and low-carbon prosperity, was co-chaired by Finnish President Tarja Halonen and South African President Jacob Zuma. The Panels final report, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, contains 56 recommendations to put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy as quickly as possible.