The Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, works to advance resilience as a core tenet of US and allied national security policy and practice.
Resilience—the ability of individuals, societies, and systems to anticipate, withstand, recover from, adapt to, and bounce forward from shocks and disruptions—is a national security imperative in an increasingly contested world. To help the United States and its allies better prepare for and succeed amid twenty-first-century challenges, the Initiative examines sources of and develops strategies for enhancing resilience across the individual, community, national, and global levels.
Pillars of work
Individual resilience
Tasked with solving the world’s toughest global security challenges, national security professionals undertake significant risks to fulfill their duties to country and cause. The Initiative seeks to showcase powerful stories of individual resilience in the national security field, study sources of personal and professional resilience, and develop strategies for enhancing the resilience of personnel across key US and allied national security institutions.
Societal resilience
As an array of traditional and nontraditional threats shapes the twenty-first-century security landscape, the United States and its allies must bolster their resources and readiness to confront emerging challenges more effectively. The Initiative works to advance strategies for strengthening resilience across key policy domains integral to national security, such as critical infrastructure, disaster preparedness and crisis management, health (including post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans, military, and members of the national security community), citizenry, and more.
Events
Reporters at risk: Supporting truth tellers in an age of rising authoritarianism at the Atlantic Council Global Future Forum
Publications
Resilience resources
Adrienne Arsht national security resilience bookshelf
The bookshelf presents a prescient collection of modern works bound by a central theme of national security resilience. Spanning war and conflict, extremism, technological change, natural disasters, climate security, and more, the bookshelf offers enduring lessons for enhancing individual, community, and societal resilience.
Adrienne Arsht national security resilience playlist
Music has long served as a tool for bolstering resilience. For individuals, it can help forge identity, heal stress and trauma, and inspire growth. In societies, it can foster community, bridge cultures, and even aid diplomacy. The playlist aims to empower listeners from the national security community and beyond to embrace a spirit of resilience.
Meet our team
Founder
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