Resilience Definitions & Frameworks
 
Complexity science, chaos theory, networks theory, complex adaptive systems theories, non-linear systems dynamics, neuroscience, provide a scientific basis for understanding the emerging multidisciplinary science of resilience.

Organizational, or enterprise resilience is a synthesis of foresight / horizon scanning, situational awareness, decision support systems, crisis management, emergency management, incident command systems, business continuity planning (BCP), IT disaster recovery palnning (ITDRP), integrated security, high performance cultural alignment, values alignment, leadership science, enterprise-wide program managment office (PMO)

The United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Singapore have all take meaningful steps in the direction of national level resilience that extends from their national security strategy. UK Resilience provides the most comprehensive example of an all-hazards thinking approach being promoted at the community level.
There are several historical frames of reference for defining resilience and aligning meaningful application in the world. These frames of reference have ranged from emotional, or pyschological resilience at the individual pysche level, to sustainbility linked models of ecological resilience, to the more recent emergent models for organizational resilience. UK Resilience, in effect in the United Kingdom since 2002, is a good example of how nations are starting to embrace resilience principles at-scale to address the growing interdependency and increasing complexity of the challenges they face.

The core message of resilience woven through all of these contexts is adaptive, transformative capacity at all scales, under all operating conditions, even the most unthinkable events.

Why is it that some people and organizations seem to emerge from a profound crisis even stronger and more successful than before the event?  What are the common characteristics and traits of a resilient individual, family, group, organization, community, nation, civilization?

Are there reliable means by which we can enculturate, train, educate, catalyze, imbue our civilization with these desirable traits and characteristics?