  Community resilience refers to the ability to prepare for, absorb, recover
from, and adapt to disruptive events, but specific definitions and measures for
resilience can vary widely from researcher to researcher or from discipline to
discipline. Community resilience is often measured using a set of indicators
based on census, socioeconomic, and community organizational data, but these
metrics and measures for community resilience provide little guidance for
policymakers to determine how best to increase the community resilience. This
article proposes to measure community resilience based on value focused
thinking. We propose an objectives hierarchy that begins with a community
decision makers' fundamental objective for resilience. Six high level
objectives for community resilience, including social resilience, economic
resilience, infrastructure resilience, environmental resilience, availability
of resources, and functionality of critical services, are broken down into
measurable attributes that focus on specific outcomes that a decision maker
would like to achieve if a disruption occurs. This new way of assessing
resilience is applied to measure the resilience of an illustrative community to
an improvised explosive device, a cyberattack, a tornado, a flood, and a winter
storm. Keywords: Community Resilience, Resiliency, Risk Analysis
