Strengthening social cohesion is a cornerstone of many peacebuilding programmes and other donor interventions in fragile and conflict-affected states. Yet the link between social cohesion and violence ...

Fostering community cohesion in low-income, climate-vulnerable areas is an overlooked strategy for climate resilience before, during, and after extreme weather events. Residents play dominos at the ...

Commemorated annually since December 1995, Reconciliation Day serves as a reminder of the painful divisions of the apartheid era and the ongoing project of building an inclusive South African identity ...

The middle ground is not a compromise of weakness but a position of strength. It asks governments to be stewards, not ...

1. The department of arts and culture convened the National Social Cohesion Summit held last week in Kliptown, Soweto. The department said the government had “identified social cohesion as one of its ...

Medium-term trends (2015-2022) for four of the 17 indicators in the dashboard point towards increasing well-being. Trends for another four indicators point in the opposite direction: towards declining ...

Survey shows levels of national pride, belonging and a sense of social justice are lower now than before the Covid pandemic We all remember the dark days early in the coronavirus pandemic. People died ...

UNHCR implements social cohesion initiatives aimed at encouraging dialogue and interaction between refugees, host communities and service providers, and supporting local communities in receiving ...

“It is now the time to invest in a social cohesion agenda. There are a lot of countries which have more resources, even though the general economic picture is dark and getting more uncertain and ...

James O'Donnell receives funding from Scanlon Foundation Research Institute. Back in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, social cohesion in Australia remarkably increased, reflecting the ...

A number of different pillars support social cohesion in Germany. Nonetheless, there is growing concern about this cohesion: Globalisation and digitalisation, demographic change and migration, and the ...