Introduction: the crises of 2020 and the field of conflict studies / Richard E. Rubenstein and Solon Simmons -- Big peace : an agenda for peace and conflict studies after the coronavirus catastrophe / Solon Simmons -- Lessons from disaster : history and the current crisis / Peter N. Stearns and Richard E. Rubenstein -- From the frying pan to the fire : the next stage of environmental crises and their implications conflict resolution / Michael Shank -- Pandemics, globalization, and contentious politics / Agnieszka Paczynska and Terrence Lyons -- Migration and the COVID-19 pandemic / Omar Grech -- COVID-19 and nationalism / Karina V. Korostelina -- A new global covenant? Great power conflicts and conflict resolution in the post-corona era / Mohammed Cherkaoui -- The triple crisis: reevaluating socio-economic values in a period of social reconstruction / Michael D. English -- Racial justice in a post-COVID America: toward systemic conflict resolution and peacebuilding / Arthur Romano -- The gendered frontlines: perpetuated inequalities or a reimagined future / Sheherazade Jafari -- Internal and eternal insecurity: impact of crisis on religious identity / Charles Davidson -- Peace engineering in a complex pandemic world / Alpasian Ozerdem and Lisa Schirch -- COVID-19 amidst conflict / Oded Adomi Leshem -- When elephants roar: the coming moral conflict betwen the United States and China / Gao Qing -- Concluding note / Solon Simmons and Richard E. Rubenstein.
Summary:
"In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official responses to it. The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its longer-term effects open the door to both further conflict escalation and dramatic new opportunities for building peace. In a series of short essays combining social analysis with informed speculation, the contributors examine the impact of the coronavirus crisis on a wide variety of issues, including nationality, social class, race, gender, ethnicity, and religion. They conclude that the period of the pandemic may well constitute a historic turning point, since the overall impact of the crisis is to destabilize existing social and political systems. Not only does this systemic shakeup produce the possibility of more intense and violent conflicts, but also presents new opportunities for advancing the related causes of social justice and civic peace"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution
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