Programs

The Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center will reach one billion people with resilience solutions to climate change, migration, and security challenges by 2030. We will focus our efforts on individuals, communities, and a broad spectrum of governments and institutions to help them, and their constituencies and stakeholders, better prepare for, navigate, and recover from shocks and stresses. We will help build a more resilient world.

Content

New Atlanticist

Apr 29, 2019

The case for getting serious about resilience

By Ashish Kumar Sen

"We had to build the city back and we had to really start thinking about the notion of resilience," Mitch Landrieu said.

Resilience

New Atlanticist

Apr 29, 2019

Atlantic Council launches Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center

By David A. Wemer

Center has a goal of enhancing the resilience of one billion people by 2030.

Resilience

Report

Apr 3, 2019

Ecology Meets Geopolitics

By Peter Engelke and David Michel

As the rivers produced by the Himalayas and other mountain ranges on the Plateau are under increasingly serious pressure, water insecurity threatens much of the continent’s peace and security.

Climate Change & Climate Action East Asia

Report

Mar 28, 2019

Disinformation in democracies: Strengthening digital resilience in Latin America

By Luiza Bandeira, Donara Barojan, Roberta Braga, Jose Luis Peñarredonda, Maria Fernanda Pérez Argüello

2018 saw political tides turn in three of Latin America’s largest democracies. These elections also saw deep polarization and distrust in institutions among Brazilians, Mexicans, and Colombians in an information environment ripe with disinformation. And while disinformation and misinformation are nothing new, the spread of false information at alarming rates – facilitated by politicians, non-state […]

Disinformation Latin America

New Atlanticist

Nov 14, 2018

The evolving wildfire threat: fewer, larger fires

By Samuel Jeffrey

While this year’s most intense fires have captured national attention as the largest, most destructive, and deadliest in California history, the total number of fires occurring annually in the United States has actually declined gradually in recent decades. 

Resilience United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Oct 2, 2017

Without focus on the fundamentals, disaster relief fails to deliver

By Christine Wormuth

As outrage grows over the federal government’s slow response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, it is fair to ask why this effort seems halting compared to that for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida.

Crisis Management Resilience

Report

Sep 26, 2017

The MADCOM future

By Matt Chessen

Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools will provide propagandists radically enhanced capabilities to manipulate human minds. Human cognition is a complex system, and AI tools are very good at decoding complex systems. Interactions on social media, browsing the Internet, and even grocery shopping provide thousands of data points from which technologists can build psychological profiles on nearly […]

Americas Civil Society

Report

Nov 21, 2016

Middle East Strategy Task Force: Politics, governance, and state-society relations

By Tamara Cofman Wittes

Investing in sustainable governance is important for the world and for the rising generation of young Arabs, who can either become a force for tremendous progress or a generation lost to violence and despair.

Civil Society Political Reform

In the News

Oct 25, 2016

Brooks in Real Clear Defense: Home Depot or Homeland Security

By Max Brooks

Read the full article here.

Crisis Management Economy & Business

Report

Feb 3, 2016

Economic recovery and revitalization

By Middle East Strategy Task Force

Even as the specter of political instability weighs heavily on the region, the Middle East is quietly experiencing a technological and societal transformation that could hold the keys to a better future.

Economy & Business Education

Experts

Events