Launch & Thrive rationale

3. Networks vs. crisis

We have a bunch of measures showing us about the situation in the world in many dimensions. The IPCC scenario is telling us about climate change. The social crisis is visible in migration, economic crisis poverty and unemployment rates. All are part of the same crisis: the crisis of values and relations. Each “separate crisis” intensifies the effects of the other one.

The divided, individualistic society and competitive, capitalistic approach to organizing needs reconstruction and replacing it. The alternatives are the models that aim to regenerate our planet's biodiversity, cooperation and resilience. Applying system thinking might provide solutions to wicked, systemic problems.

Network resilience is the ability to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Measures, such as disaster preparedness—which includes prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery—are vital steps to resilience. Adding the network notion of resilience would mean that we consider the connections between the communities and their ability to collaborate, share and raise their resilience.

We would like here to provide an overall framework for understanding the creation and strengthening of the networks with the community and network resilience in the background.