Welcome - International Journal of Community Resilience

To the International Journal of Community Resilience (INJCR)!

Community resilience is the ability of communities to face and recover from challenges using their own resources. The challenges faced by humanity, including the current COVID-19 pandemic have clearly demonstrated the power of community resilience in sustaining human existence, promoting health and wellbeing, and economic prosperity. While there is a growing community of practice of academicians and practitioners in the field of community resilience, the lack of open access and peer-reviewed journal on community resilience has been much felt especially during the current pandemic. Recognizing this need, The Resilience Academy of the Resilience Research, Training, and Consulting is pleased to announce the launch of the International Journal of Community Resilience (INJCR) with the objective of promoting the academic discipline and the field practice of community resilience. INJCR is a platform for academicians, practitioners, learners, and policymakers to share, innovate, and debate on issues related to community
resilience.

Meet the Founder Editor

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Dr. Novil Wijesekara MD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-6220

Novil is a Medical doctor (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) with Doctorate of Medicine in Community Medicine, Master of Science in Disaster Management, Master of Science in Community Medicine, Post Graduate Diploma in Diplomatic Studies and Foreign Relations and Diploma in Human Rights and Peace Education with a strong focus towards community resilience, community engagement, disaster preparedness, and response, outbreak preparedness and response, environmental health and drinking water quality. Founder of the Community Resilience Center and the co-founder and honorary president of Community Tsunami Early Warning Center (now known as the Community Tsunami Education Center. Edupreneur and managing director – Resilience Research Training and Consulting.

Meet the Editorial Board

Dr. Aslam Saja PhD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4687-3769

Dr. Saja is currently working as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Oluvil. He has over 7 years of experience working in the humanitarian and disaster risk reduction sector. His areas of research include resilience and risk informatics. He is a Young Scientist from IRDR, China, Global Fellow from Brown University, USA, and Community Solutions Fellow from the Department of State, US.

Dr. Justin Okoli PhD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3153-0269

Justin is a senior lecturer in Crisis & Business Continuity Management at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University after previously working at Coventry Business School as lecturer in cyber security management. Justin is involved with teaching and research on both the MBA, MSc and UG programmes and also supervises PhDs. He is a member of the centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI) at De Montfort University and a visiting scholar at the centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management (DARM) at Middlesex University where he obtained his PhD. With an MSc in Disaster Management and a PhD in crisis decision-making, Justin’s work explores the decision-making strategies used by experienced emergency responders when solving complex tasks in dynamic and high-staked work domains, the so called VUCA environments. Recently his research interest has extended to the field of cyber resilience, cyber decision-making and digital security risk management, with the aim of understanding how computer end users make security decisions, mainly from cognitive and human factors perspectives. Communicating his research outputs has always been key priority for Justin and he has presented his research at a number of local and international conferences and also published in notable journals. Justin holds a post-graduate certificate in Risk Management from Middlesex University, and has also been certified as a home safety advisor with the West Midlands Fire Service where he previously supported the casualty and simulation group. Justin holds the status of fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).