Resilience Through Strategy, Story & Impact
Emergency Management | Food & Economic Security | Climate Adaptation | Community-Led Recovery
Resilience Through
Strategy, Story & Impact
Emergency Management | Food & Economic Security | Climate Adaptation | Community-Led Recovery
About the book
When Disaster Strikes, Communities Respond First
When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica in 2025, it exposed serious weaknesses in formal disaster systems but it also revealed the Caribbean’s greatest strength: its people.
This book explains how Caribbean communities respond long before official aid arrives and why traditional disaster frameworks often fail in the region.
Inside the book, readers will learn:
- Why imported disaster models don’t work in the Caribbean
- How families, churches, markets, and communities save lives
- The role of informal economies in recovery
- What governments must change to build real resilience
- How culture strengthens survival and rebuilding
About the book
Resilience in the Caribbean - Volume 2
By Ajeen Beckford, M.A.
Resilience in the Caribbean – Volume 2 is an applied learning companion designed to transform Caribbean disaster theory into practical, operational, and culturally grounded action. Building on the core text, this volume equips students, practitioners, policymakers, and regional institutions with real-world case studies, decision tools, and structured workbook exercises rooted in Caribbean realities.
This volume bridges the gap between theory and practice by translating Caribbean disaster resilience concepts into:
- Applied case studies
- Policy-relevant analysis
- Training-ready exercises
- Academic and professional learning tools
- Disaster Studies
About the book
Reflective Waters The Fulcrum on Which Injustice Pivots
- A powerful narrative nonfiction exposing how justice systems can fail vulnerable parents.
- Follows a father trapped in an abusive relationship marked by control, fear, and manipulation.
- Shows how emotional and physical abuse escalates behind closed doors.
- Reveals how children become leverage in battles for power.
- Explores how courts misread fear as aggression and silence as guilt.
About the Author
About the Author
Ajeen Beckford is a Caribbean-born Emergency Management Specialist with over 10 years of experience in disaster response, public health, food security, and community resilience.
He holds a Master’s degree in Emergency Management Leadership and has worked across Canada and the Caribbean, focusing on disaster systems that respect culture, community realities, and local strengths.
His work bridges policy, practice, and lived experience.
Testimonials
Reflections From Readers
Readers respond to a work that examines injustice with restraint, clarity, and moral depth
“This book doesn’t shout. It reveals. Reflective Waters shows how injustice survives quietly — through procedure, delay, and silence. It’s unsettling in the most necessary way.”
“Rarely does a book balance personal testimony with systemic critique this effectively. Beckford writes with clarity, restraint, and moral weight.”
“This is not an easy read — and that’s exactly the point. It forces you to sit with uncomfortable truths about power, fairness, and accountability.”
“A deeply reflective work that lingers long after the final page. It challenges the comforting belief that justice naturally corrects itself.”
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Perspectives on Resilience & Justice
Thoughtful writing on justice, resilience, disaster systems, and the quiet mechanics of power. These essays explore how institutions shape lives, how communities respond to crisis, and why accountability matters.
