| Description: |
Research on development recently took up the concept of ”resilience”, in particular in geography. In the course of our researches, we have used it as a scientific tool of measurement of the evolution of territories and the dynamics of populations within the framework of post-conflict situations. Resilience indeed makes it possible to have a panel of qualitative and territorialized indicators capable of "measuring" the efficiency and the reality of reconstruction after conflicts and to propose a more accurate mapping. But the concept of resilience, since the beginning of the 2010s and especially after the Sendai Conference (2015), has been transferred, with limited success, from the environmental field to the humanitarian field, and has become, for the International Institutions and NGOs, a conceptual and operational tool, a kind of " Swiss knife " common to various actors, including all the actions to be carried out in post-conflict periods. It has set up, from then on, a new intervention paradigm on territories in crisis and, as with the post-conflict concept, it must be perceived as a management tool impacting territories and populations. It establishes from then a new intervention paradigm on territories in crisis, and, just like the post-conflict, it must be analyzed as instrument of management, having repercussions on territories and populations. We shall show, then, how resilience can be used in post-conflict geography, and shall identify new territorial analysis research leads and the stakes of the concept. |