• Youth resilience to violence in Africa 

  Tadesse, Medhane; Koné, Rodrigue Fahiraman (2021-11)

  ‘Resilience’ takes shape at different levels and is determined by socialisation, norms and values. The less socialised the individual is, the less his or her ability to escape violence. Self-advancement is very much linked ...
• Youth and countering violent extremism in Africa 

  Tadesse, Medhane (2021-11)

  Research findings from the project suggest adopting a multi-level engagement, viewing and engaging youth as partners, recognising human-rights approaches, ensuring multi-stakeholder involvement, and focusing on “soft ...
• Violence des jeunes en milieu urbain en Afrique 

  Sy, Kalidou (2021-11)
• Urban youth violence in Africa 

  Sy, Kalidou (2021-11)

  One of the methodological choices made in the conduct of this study was to focus on political corruption as a phenomenon that compromises young people's access to economic opportunities while also limiting government's ...
• Rôle des institutions coutumières dans la construction de la résilience des jeunes face à la violence 

  Koné, Rodrigue Fahiraman (2021-11)
• Gender, violence and violent extremism 

  M'Cormack-Hale, Fredline (2021-11)

  The paper reports on a pan-African research initiative involving 14 research projects in 12 African countries, commissioned by the IDRC to better understand and address youth experiences with violence and violent extremism ...
• Safe homes for African LGBTQ+ youth : resilience personified 

  Livermon, Xavier (2021-11)

  African Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth are disproportionately affected by the issue of homelessness. Social housing policy is often inadequate to address the needs of homeless youth in ...
• Role of customary institutions in building youth resilience to violence in Africa 

  Koné, Rodrigue Fahiraman (2021-11)

  The research considers socio-community institutions and mechanisms on the factors of resilience of young people in the face of violence in Africa, where the silent majority of young people do not choose violence. This kind ...
• Flood vulnerability and resilience in peri-urbanizing Vietnam : a case study from Ninh Binh province 

  Le, Hue; Ha, Ly Bui (Springer Nature, 2019)

  Peri-urban areas in Vietnam are caught between development and conservation needs, between economic development and environmental protection, between cultural preservation and sustainable development. This chapter/article ...
• Understanding institutional challenges for urban planning in Vientiane capital, Lao PDR 

  Hayward, Daniel (2017-11)

  This policy brief analyzes infrastructural development in Vientiane Capital, looking at components of roads and transport, water supply, wastewater, drainage, solid waste, food security and energy. Each system is considered ...
• Detailed outline of ICURA presentation 

  Unknown author (Small Globe Inc., 2015-10-27)

  This two-page document provides the subject headings and topics for presentation by the IDRC at the International Community-University Research Alliance Program (ICURA) conference (2015). See also "Summative evaluation : ...
• Engaging youth for resilient and inclusive societies - recommendations and summary report 

  IDRC (2019-04-04)

  Youth engagement in Canada targets three main priorities: participation; protection; and prevention. Canada is working to create meaningful and equitable avenues for youth to engage in. The newsletter covers the conference ...
• Protocole éthique et sécurité 

  CERADD (2017-09)

  L’éthique doit guider le comportement de tous les individus qui participent à la planification, à la conduite et à la promotion de la recherche à laquelle se prêtent des êtres humains. Toutefois, les facteurs qui handicapent ...
• Pathways to resilience : formal service and informal support use patterns among youth in challenging social ecologies; final technical report 

  Tian Guoxiu; Restrepo Henao, Alexandra; Theron, Linda; VanderPlaat, Madine (2015-02)

  Despite exposure to poverty, violence, mental illness, marginalization due to race, ethnicity, ability, divorce or death of their parents, cultural dislocation, and other risks, research shows that many at-risk youth still ...
• What is resilience across cultures and contexts? : advances to the theory of positive development among individuals and families under stress 

  Ungar, Michael (Taylor & Francis Group, 2010)

  A convergence of epistemological innovations occurring in fields as diverse as sociology, ecology, and the cross-cultural study of psychology makes it difficult to assert what is and is not a benchmark of positive development ...
• Using visual methods to capture embedded processes of resilience for youth across cultures and contexts 

  Didkowsky, Nora; Ungar, Michael; Liebenberg, Linda (PubMed, 2012-02)

  Objectives: We review the value of using visual data in a dialogue with youth, to reflect, explore and find language to better understand processes of resilience. Methods: The argument is demonstrated with examples from ...
• Social ecology of resilience : addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct 

  Ungar, Michael (John Wiley & Sons, 2011)

  More than two decades after E. E. Werner and R. S. Smith (1982), N. Garmezy (1983), and M. Rutter (1987) published their research on protective mechanisms and processes that are most likely to foster resilience, ambiguity ...
• Families as navigators and negotiators : facilitating culturally and contextually specific expressions of resilience 

  Ungar, Michael (John Wiley & Sons, 2010)

  A social ecological model of resilience is used to show that resilience is dependent on a family's ability to both access available resources that sustain individual and collective well-being, as well as participate ...
• Ethical concerns regarding participation of marginalized youth in research 

  Liebenberg, Linda; Ungar, Michael (International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), 2011)
• Community resilience for youth and families : facilitative physical and social capital in contexts of adversity 

  Ungar, Michael (Elsevier, 2011)

  Studies that focus on community-level factors associated with the resilience of youth and families reflect a shift in perspective from community deficits to the potential of communities to facilitate the mobilization ...

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