COVID-19 and Conflict: Major Risks and Policy Responses
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Dominic Rohner
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic entails a medium- and long-run risk of heightened political conflict. In this short essay we distinguish four major consequences of COVID-19 that may fuel social tensions and political violence, namely i) spiking poverty, ii) education under stress, iii) potential for repression, and iv) reduced inter-dependence. After discussing them in turn, we will formulate policy recommendations on how to attenuate these risks.
Funding source: H2020 European Research Council
Award Identifier / Grant number: 677595
Acknowledgements
The author gratefully acknowledges financial support from the ERC Starting Grant POLICIES FOR PEACE-677595.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Editorial
- Introduction to the special issue ‘Reflections on the post COVID-19 World’
- Research Articles
- Bioeconomic Peace Research and Policy
- COVID-19 and Collective Action
- Capitalism and COVID-19: Crisis at the Crossroads
- COVID-19, Security Threats and Public Opinions
- Pandemic Police States
- Guidelines for Revitalizing International Organizations for the Post-Covid-19 Era
- Peacekeeping after Covid-19
- COVID-19 as a Potential Accelerator. A Euro-Centric Perspective
- The Decline of US Power and the Future of Conflict Management after Covid
- Will COVID-19 Cause a War? Understanding the Case of the U.S. and China
- Rethinking U.S. National Security after Covid19
- COVID-19 and Conflict: Major Risks and Policy Responses
- A Pandemic of Violence? The Impact of COVID-19 on Conflict
- COVID-19 and the Potential Consequences for Social Stability
- The other virus: Covid-19 and violence against civilians
- COVID-19 in Africa: Turning a Health Crisis into a Human Security Threat?
- Economics and the Covid Pandemic in the UK
- Conflict in the Time of (Post-) Corona: Some Assessments from Behavioral Economics
- The Data Science of COVID-19 Spread: Some Troubling Current and Future Trends
