Resilience of Citizen Engagement in Disasters. A research initiative by the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. Emergence of Citizen Resilience in Downtown Back Bay. On March 13, 2012, around 7pm, Back Bay. Downtown in Boston suffered a sudden power outage. Shoppers on the Newbury Street. Back Bay downtown is a popular neighborhood where local residents, business residents and visitors spend time together. It is a very diverse an.

Community Resolve has been working in Bristol since 2001 to improve understanding and cooperation across difference and divide. We now have considerable experience in working with others to build positive team, organisation and community relations. Community Resolve has long-standing collaborations with a number of academic institutions, including the University of the West of England in the UK and NHTV, Breda in the Netherlands.

We are passionate about sharing knowledge. Information has various forms of transmission and interpretation, and has to the ability to bring clarity and uncertainty, and power to bind us together as a community. Our goal is to be hub where communities can connect with most useful guides, tools, and resources to help make an impact in people lives. How We Will Do It. We hope one day with the help of this website, every community will have the basic knowledge and confidence to achieve their goals in life.

We believe that effecting real change in our cities requires us to work together in our common interest; diverse communities taking action on a shared agenda. What do we do? Work with community groups and organisations.