ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 provides a short overview of approaches to resilience, including critical resilience studies, and concentrates on the resilience of disadvantaged urban communities in the face of persistent conflict. The chapter emphasizes the existing approaches to the resilience of neighborhoods affected by the urban violence. The model of neighborhood resilience that centers on resilience practices and rests on interconnections between the structure of conflict, power-dynamics power and identity, external resources and community capacities is introduced as a roadmap for the study.
