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The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has reinforced or compounded conflict, human rights violations, disinformation efforts, gender inequality and societal fractures. The emerging post-pandemic world risks being more violent and less democratic. Geopolitical tensions and unilateral action have increased, while the need for collective action has become clearer than ever. The 2021 Stockholm Forum will explore novel approaches and solutions to promoting peace in the age of compound political, social, economic and environmental risks reinforced by Covid-19.
Emergency law responses to Covid-19 have affected peace and transition processes in predictable and unpredictable ways.
International IDEA, together with the Political Settlements Research Programme and the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law (University of Edinburgh), will host a session that will look at the consequences for levels of violent conflict and democratic consolidation. The discussion will be ar
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This post looks at emergency law responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in conflict-affected states in transition. While some type of emergency response to Covid-19 has been used in most states, we suggest that conflict ‘fault lines’ can mean that emergency law responses have a capacity to undermine transitions.
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Views expressed in this commentary are those of the authors. This commentary is independent of specific national or political interests. Views expressed do not necessarily represent the institutional position of International IDEA, its Board of Advisers or its Council of Member States.
We suggest four key areas of concern:
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Published on 23 February 2021 Devanjan Bhattacharya Anne Funnemark
More than a year after the first confirmed case of Covid-19, and almost eleven months after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a pandemic, there are few areas of local, regional and global politics, policy and society that have not been impacted by the global health crisis. Peace processes and conflict-affected areas across the world are no exception. Researchers at the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) at the University of Edinburgh and partners in the Covid Collective research platform, have been tracking the nexus between conflict, peace, and Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. To help inform peace and conflict research at a time of rapid and often unparalleled change, PSRP has developed the Covid-19 Library of Trackers, a curated selection of trackers that trace developments during Covid-19 in a wide variety