Social capital, resilience and vulnerability in crisis management

In this webinar, Associate Professors Claudia Morsut and Christian Henrik Alexander Kuran discuss the role of social capital in crisis management and its linkages with resilience, vulnerability and risk awareness. Using findings from the Horizon 2020 research project BuildERS (Building European Communities’ Resilience and Social Capital https://buildersproject.eu/), the two presenters illustrate which kind of relationships social capital establishes with resilience, vulnerability and risk awareness when individuals and local communities cope with a crisis or a disaster. They will provide concrete suggestions to address challenges in crisis management to strengthen social capital.

About the presenters
Claudia Morsut is Associate Professor of Societal Security at the University of Stavanger (Norway) and owns a PhD in International Relations from the Università degli Studi La Sapienza Rome Italy. Her main research interest revolves around the EU governance in disaster risk management, in disaster risk reduction and in civil protection. She was the local coordinator for the H2020 project BuildERS Building European Communities’ Resilience and Social Capital and the EU-UCPM-2020-KN-AG project ROADMAP European observatory on disaster risk and crisis management best practices. She is project leader in a national research project, RISKSEC2.0 Local climate change adaptation: from risk governance to securitisation strategies? She is also member of the Network on Transboundary Pandemic Crisis Governance, supported by the Nordic Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Her publications have examined the European Union civil protection policy and governance, the EU cooperation in security at global level, and the EU governance of migration.

Christian Henrik Alexander Kuran is Associate Professor of Risk management and Societal Safety at the University of Stavanger (Norway). His main research interest is in the areas of accident investigation and safety in complex sociotechnical systems. He has participated as researcher in a variety of projects, such as BuildERS Building European Communities’ Resilience and Social Capital, and projects focusing on traffic safety, and human behaviour for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. His publications have explored safety in the heavy goods transport sector and the use of ethnographic methodologies in safety studies.

The webinar was on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, and was part of the regular webinar sessions held by the International Social Capital Association https://www.intsocialcapital.org/ as part of the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/intsocialcapital and LinkedIn group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13975650/