Community resilience placed at the service of the climate-migration-conflict nexus understanding

Abstract

In the frame of the so-called climate-migration-conflict nexus (CMCN), the potential correlation between these three dimensions has been widely explored. Furthermore, the literature calls for efforts to focus on responding to the impacts on society of this nexus through the development of forms of adaptation, mitigation and resilience. In particular, in the context of CMCN, the concept of community resilience has not received sufficient attention. More generally, this concept has not been the subject of homogeneous definitions such that it can be adequately operationalised in the analysis of CMCN. Bearing in mind the findings from CMCN research and referring to the existing literature on community resilience, we intend to make a theoretical contribution to the debate on this latter concept. The results will take the shape of an operational definition of community resilience that can also be applied in the context of CMCN. Consequently, this reflection may also contribute to overcoming the linear cause-effect approach that has been the subject of the majority of studies on CMCN, by taking into consideration a wider broader spectrum of geographical, political, social, cultural, demographic and economic variables.