#CommDev18 Community Development Society - 49th International Conference

The recent European migration crisis has turned into a complex, international pandemic, speaking to the heightened severity of migration worldwide. This roundtable therefore seeks to address this priority by bringing community development researchers and practitioners to the table to develop further understanding of how to strengthen communities of migrant populations.

Community resilience is a framework for understanding the capacity to absorb, mitigate, and transform shocks and stresses. Building and enhancing these capacities, accounting for local context, is essential to sustainable equitable development. This roundtable will review community resilience research and engage participants to provide input for connecting scholarship and practice.

Brainstorm and explore ways to move beyond our normal procedures and strategies for evaluation in community development. In this mutual learning environment, we will develop promising, new and innovative ways of planning for, implementing, integrating and communicating the process and results of community development in various contexts.