Social cohesion is in decline. This has become a common refrain, along with despair about a crisis in our democracy. Yet amid the platitudes and wishful thinking about reversing that trend, there is a ...

The world faces an alarming rise in conflict and violence—with more violent conflicts today than at any time in the past three decades, and the largest forced displacement crisis ever recorded. These ...

The phrase should evoke optimism, positive expectations about the future, trust and belonging. That seems almost out of reach in a chaotic world One term has already become the well-intentioned weasel ...

COVID-19 has upended so many aspects of our lives in Australia, it can be hard to remember what life was like before the pandemic. It’s also hard to remember what we feared would happen when the ...

The border region of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger is home to violent extremist groups eager to recruit young men to their ranks. To counter the lure of groups like the Islamic State, officials have ...

The brief, part of the Resilience Rapid Learning series, examines factors that contribute to local-level variation in social cohesion in order to improve programming. Hypothesized to reduce violence, ...

Team cohesion refers to the degree to which members of a group are united around shared goals, mutual trust and interpersonal bonds. It encompasses both task cohesion – a collective commitment to ...