ALEXANDER FORUM

for Reflection & Resilience

For collective & individual resilience — and bold futures.

Our Mission

The Alexander Forum for Reflection & Resilience is an independent, non-profit Think & Do Tank based in Vienna. We connect observation, strategy, and practice to open new perspectives on change, crises, and cohesion.

We see resilience as a shared task across politics, science, culture, and society. Societal and personal crises are intertwined; unresolved tensions weaken the whole — and those under pressure can contribute less.

Current Publications

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Foundation Dossier October 2025 CC BY-NC 4.0

Resilience – Interdisciplinary Analysis and Future Competence

Why resilience sits at our core — and how to strengthen it in practice: from early attachment to organizational culture, from neuroplasticity to community resilience.

ResiliencePsychologySystems Theory

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Foundation Dossier November 2025 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The Era of Simultaneity

On the logic of multiple crises and the limits of adaptation: why crises reinforce one another today — and why transformation beyond adaptation is required. (Currently available in German only.)

PolycrisisStructures & InstitutionsTransformation

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Topics

Our approach is interdisciplinary — from climate and conflict to technology and security, as well as psychology and medicine. We are transparent about uncertainty and publish analyses and reports that offer orientation, reveal blind spots, and inspire solutions.

Resilience & Societal Stress Tests
Between adaptation, exhaustion, and renewal.
Information & Trust
Communication, fear, polarization, and responsibility in the digital age.
Technology & Risk
How progress reshapes stability and security.
Identity & Cohesion
Belonging, trauma, and what holds communities together.

Why “Alexander”?

The name is a program — a stance, not hero worship. We look to history for patterns of resilience, reflection, and responsibility.

Alexander the Great

Strategy & Adaptability

Military leader and state builder of extraordinary impact — and ambivalences. Lesson: leadership under uncertainty requires speed and translation — always checked by ethics.

Hypatia of Alexandria

Education as a Lighthouse

Philosopher and teacher in late antique Alexandria. Education and knowledge transmission build cultural resilience: critical thinking, dialogue, and the craft of reason.

Contact

For cooperation, briefings, or events, write to us:

contact@alexanderforum.org