Approval Date: October 15, 2021/h3>

Key Objectives:

1. To observe and study human resilience globally;
2. To perhaps develop the discipline of human resiliency systems;
3. To generate research, disseminate knowledge, teaching and policy around the question of human resiliency;
4. To generate research, disseminate knowledge, teaching and policy around the question of strategic human security;
5. To generate research, disseminate knowledge, teaching and policy around the question of Guyana’s future in the context of humanity’s future and the future of planet earth;
6. To provide a common academic space for international multi-and cross disciplinary partnerships, to galvanize funding and intellectual resources who will work across disciplines, space, time and dimensions in regard to human resilience; and
7. To systematize and institutionalize resilience as a human attribute and practice at all levels of society through teaching and action research, especially amongst the young and those perceived as historically vulnerable.

This institute supports several specially developed taught courses for several security agencies in Guyana as well as taught courses in resiliency, trauma and development. It offers the only 1 year Masters Degree in Development Studies developed for the military in the region. This institute also works on youth and Futures.