<h3>Approval Date: October 15, 2021/h3>
<h3>Key Objectives:</h3>

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	<li>To observe and study human resilience globally;</li>
	<li>To perhaps develop the discipline of human resiliency systems;</li>
	<li>To generate research, disseminate knowledge, teaching and policy around the question of human resiliency;</li>
	<li>To generate research, disseminate knowledge, teaching and policy around the question of strategic human security;</li>
	<li>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;</li>
	<li>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</li>
	<li>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.</li>
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<p>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.</p>
