ABSTRACT
While cultivating communities of practice and purpose using social knowledge management framework yields positive outcomes in rural context, it does not ensure creation of a resilient community, a community “that can withstand hazards, continue to operate under stress, adapt to adversity, and recover functionality after a crisis”. Communities of circumstance can help the community to develop the desired adaptive capacities on a collective level, transcending individual enhancement, thus making it a resilient community. The characterization of community resilience indicates that making a resilient community primarily depends on: (i) formation of a network that connects intra- and inter-community stakeholders; and (ii) collaborative knowledge transactions among various agents (the nodes) of this network. Moreover, building a resilient community doesn't come from a top-down, government-only, command-and-control approach; it comes from a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches through establishing collaborative connection among community members and external agencies.
