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Resilience as a Security Programme: The Janus Faced Guiding Principle

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Resilience has become a central paradigm of security policy. At the end of the 1990s, resilience was brought into play by the UN as a key guiding principle for the reduction of natural disasters. In Great Britain, the entire natural disaster planning was restructured with the stipulation of resilience, and comprehensive security programmes for cities were being developed under a ‘resilient cities’ guideline.

An earlier version of this article was published in German language as: “Resilienz als Sicherheitsprogramm—Zum Janusgesicht eines Leitkonzepts,” in Endress, M. and Maurer, A. (eds.), “Resilienz im Sozialen”(2015), pp. 295–312, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

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Kaufmann, S. (2019). Resilience as a Security Programme: The Janus Faced Guiding Principle. In: Rampp, B., Endreß, M., Naumann, M. (eds) Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8_12

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