Exploring the Prerequisites of European Crisis & Disaster Management

Abstract

The corona virus (COVID-19) was the latest, but not the last, crisis to test the limits of social capital and resilience in Europe, with particular impact upon the most vulnerable. This panel gathers papers that take stock of Europe’s experience in tapping into social capital for crisis and disaster management, identifying both the raw sources of social capital and societies’ institutional structures for harnessing that capital in the face of crises. We aim to showcase how social capital, in turn, contributes to helping society’s most vulnerable even in the face of contradictory forces: disinformation, lack of trust, and widely varying threat perceptions in Europe. The papers showcase new empirical evidence on these key questions. Part of the EU-Builders project (https://buildersproject.eu/; grant 833496), but including on a wider set of scholars, the panel speaks to greater question of what determines resilience in European societies.

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Nonviolence and Covid-19: a force already more powerful?	View Paper Details
Social Media Movements and Spontaneous Volunteer Action in Times of Coronavirus: exploring official attitudes towards citizens’ efforts	View Paper Details
Resilient European societies? Unpacking the sources of resilience across Europe	View Paper Details
Engaging informal volunteers and social support networks into crisis management system	View Paper Details