Resilience – Interdisciplinary Analysis and Future Competence
Why resilience sits at our core — and how it can be strengthened in practice: from early attachment to organizational culture, from neuroplasticity to community resilience.
ALEXANDER FORUM
for Reflection & Resilience
For collective & individual resilience — and bold future shaping.
Our Mission
The Alexander Forum for Reflection & Resilience is an independent, non-profit Think & Do Tank based in Vienna. We connect societal observation, strategic thinking, and practical experience 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: those under pressure can contribute less — and unresolved tensions weaken the whole.
How we work
We work interdisciplinarily, close to sources, and with a clear commitment to language. Our analyses aim to name not only what is being debated, but also what is being overlooked.
Where evidence is uncertain, we say so. Where debates turn too quickly moral, we try to make the underlying mechanics visible. For us, reflection is not a safe distance — it is a prerequisite for responsible action.
Current Publications
View allThe 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.)
Topics
Our approach is interdisciplinary — from climate and conflict to technology and security, as well as psychology and medicine. We mark uncertainty transparently and publish analyses, briefings and reports that offer orientation, surface 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.
Formats
Our work takes shape as essays, analyses, and dossiers. In addition, we develop briefings and workshops on a selective basis when organizations need orientation, context, or a trauma-informed lens on complex situations.
Why “Alexander”?
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.
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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.
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