Preventing crises, enabling recovery - #ResilienceSunday

How can we make developing countries resilient to threats posed by conflicts and disasters? Here are some of the most popular #ResilienceSunday tweets and Facebook posts. Join the global discussion on preventing crisis and enabling recovery - we’d love your input!

  1. Women & men experience conflict differently & understand peace differently: bit.ly/XsxLZ1 @UNPeacekeeping #ResilienceSunday
  2. 15,000-20,000 new victims are hurt/killed by landmines & explosive remnants of war each year. ow.ly/iaOZu #ResilienceSunday
  3. Learn how Senegalese women have rehabilitated mangrove forests to decrease soil salinity & increase fish populations:
  4. What can help build a better world? Freedom from discrimination/persecution?
    VOTE and make YOUR voice heard! http://ow.ly/hemmK
  5. Fact: 1 person dies every minute due to conflict or violent crime=526,000 deaths/year: on.undp.org/hxK38 #ResilienceSunday
  6. Fact: 1 person dies every minute due to conflict or violent crime=526,000 deaths/year: on.undp.org/hxK38 #ResilienceSunday
  7. Would access to transport and roads improve YOUR life? See what others said and cast your vote at MY World 2015: http://ow.ly/heoaq
  8. Tweeting to prevent violence: How is the world leveraging social media to drive peace? @CFR_org: ow.ly/h8JON #ResilienceSunday
  9. Building resilience means making a country/region & the world strong in the long-term. What do u think is most effective? #ResilienceSunday
  10. @UNDP #ResilienceSunday An affordable quality home, food and an education for its citizens are imperative to build up a strong nation.
  11. After more than two decades of civil war, the fire department in Mogadishu had fallen apart. Now - it's building itself back up!
  12. Check out Global Pulse - it monitors the early impacts of global crises on vulnerable populations on.undp.org/gKjXs #ResilienceSunday
  13.  Nepal is one of the 20 most disaster-prone countries in the world. So Nepalis have to prepare! 

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