Partnership on National Resilience / CARRI

The Obama Administration has prominently featured the role resilience in its first National Security Strategy released by the White House in May 2010.  The new strategy places new emphasis on the vital role that citizens, companies, and communities can and must play in dealing with the evolving terrorism and other threats and hazards that Americans will face in the 21st Century. The new strategy specifically calls for a revitalized national effort to better integrate the role of everyday Americans and the private sector into security and preparedness planning.

The Center for National Policy is collaborating with the Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI) on the Community Resilience System Initiative.  The Community Resilience Initiative involves representatives from academia, government (local, state, federal), other resilience efforts, the private sector, and from non-governmental and faith-based organizations who are collectively working to identify the essential elements that communities need in order to improve their resilience.  CARRI has also partnered with the Center for National Policy in establishing a "National Resilience Policy Forum" for undertaking an ongoing dialogue among innovative practitioners and thought leaders to support public and private sector decision-makers in building national resilience.  Forum participants represent state and local government, major corporations, researchers and academics, non-governmental and community organizations.