How did people in conflict-induced crisis build resilience?

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  From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. Scars of a whipped Louisiana slave photographed in April 1863 and later distributed by abolitionists.  
  Hundreds of thousands descended on Washington, DC's Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963. It was from the steps of the memorial that King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  
  In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation.

Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. The patient's skin is burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion.

 
  The Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) was a revolutionary independence war which pitted East Pakistan (later joined by India) against West Pakistan, and lasted over a duration of nine months. It witnessed large-scale atrocities, the exodus of 10 million refugees and the displacement of 30 million people.