Workshop: The Relevance of Culture in Disaster Recovery (October 13-16, 2016, Colorado State University)

该奖项支持的研讨会讨论的首要问题是：在自然灾害高危地区，面对自然灾害造成的深刻动荡，是否有某些类型的文化习俗、价值观和信仰特别重要需要支持？最近对个别灾后情况的研究发现，通过关注受影响社区的文化优势，有可能减少眼前和长期的痛苦。现在，科罗拉多州立大学的凯瑟琳·E·布朗博士和田纳西大学的凯拉·B·奥康奈尔博士将召集在灾害应对科学和实践方面经验丰富的研究人员和从业人员，以确定不同灾害背景下的共同点。通过这一方法，讲习班旨在将文化、社区和复原力的复杂概念转化为实际和可操作的成果，供从事灾害应对和恢复工作的研究人员和从业人员使用。这种方法还将进一步发展关于社区复原力和灾后恢复的社会科学理论。研讨会将在科罗拉多州的柯林斯堡举行，为期三天。与专业协调员合作，与会者将明确关注如何确定和动员社区内的文化因素，以影响重建体验和改进灾害应对。讲习班参与者将创建一个文化考虑的模板，稍后将在致力于灾后恢复的社区的不同实地研究地点进行测试。经过测试和改进的模板最终将通过一个由灾难研究人员和恢复从业者组成的新网络与急救人员共享。该网络将在测试后对议定书的结果进行评估，传播研讨会的信息和成果，并努力改进未来的重建和恢复成果。培育这一完整的恢复观将为社会科学家提供发展更严谨的灾害社会科学所需的视角。同样重要的是，它将帮助研究人员、政府机构和社区组织开发响应和干预模式，以补充和支持社区的长期需求和优势。

The overarching question addressed by the workshop supported by this award is: Are there certain kinds of cultural practices, values, and beliefs that, in locations at high-risk for natural disaster, are especially important to support in the face of the profound upheaval that natural disasters produce? Recent research into individual post-disaster situations has found that it is possible to reduce both immediate and long-term suffering by attending to the cultural strengths of impacted communities. Now Dr. Katherine E. Browne (Colorado State University) and Dr. Caela B. O'Connell (University of Tennessee) will convene researchers and practitioners experienced in the science and practice of disaster response to identify commonalities across different disaster contexts. Through this approach, the workshop aims to convert complex concepts of culture, community, and resilience into practical and actionable outcomes for researchers and practitioners working in disaster response and recovery. This approach also will further social science theory of community resilience and post-disaster recovery.The workshop will take place over three days in Fort Collins, Colorado. Working with professional facilitators, participants will be explicitly focused on how to identify and mobilize cultural elements within communities to influence the rebuilding experience and improve disaster response. Workshop participants will create a template of cultural considerations that will later be tested across different field research sites in communities working to recover from disasters. The tested and refined template will eventually be shared with first responders through a new network of disaster researchers and recovery practitioners. This network will assess the results of the protocol once tested, disseminate information and outcomes from the workshop, and work to improve future rebuilding and recovery outcomes. Cultivating this whole frame view of recovery will provide social scientists the perspective needed to develop a more rigorous social science of disasters. Equally important, it will help researchers, government agencies, and community organizations develop models for response and intervention that complement and support the needs and strengths of communities for the long-term.