An Experience of Network Intervention

Disaster conditions have a psychosocial impact that alters all the systems to which an individual belongs. Damage to the population affects lives, agricultural and industrial production, housing and services and destabilizes the pre-established conditions of community well being. This alters social networks and social structure in general, generates an over-demand for systems and communities and overwhelms their capacity to respond to individuals in a functional manner.TO address this reality, an experience of Network Intervention was developed between 2012 and 2013 to recuperate or reconfigure the networks affected by natural disasters in Manatí-Colombia. The implementation of this intervention reconfigured support networks, supported quicker psychological adaptation and promoted resilience in the communities affected by the disaster. See the complete information HERE

Personal Networks in Disaster Contexts

Personal Networks in Disaster Contexts. The case of Colombia, 2010-2011

An individual is defined, in part, by his or her connections to others. When an individual loses such connections, he or she experiences a displacement of personhood and enters in a geographical, political and social space of redefinition. In this sense, victims of natural disasters often lose the connections they had created within their native social system and face the daunting need to re-establish a life, a task that requires them to rebuild the personal networks that have been fractured by the disaster. In this blog post I want to explore how a network analysis help us to understand such a reality.