Epistemological reassessment on the concept of resilience. Societal intangibles in the identity dilemma

Abstract

Resilience is a concept borrowed from different fields of research like psychology, ecology and engineering and established in security studies. But the stability and relevance of the concept is not yet established as we have till the end of 2024, according to NATO agenda, to settle its substance and content. On the epistemological area, we need to establish the usefulness of such a concept as well as its identity and concrete added value to security studies since it overlaps with number of other concepts like security, vulnerability, good governance, sustainability and so on.

Keywords

• resilience
• epistemology
• societal security
• intangibles
• acceptable error.