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COVID-19 and Conflict: Is Peace the Cure?

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In this blog post, International Altert’s CEO Michael Young shows how a renewed focus on SDG 16 could help fight COVID-19 and salvage the Global Goals.   Read more

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Crossfire and Covid-19: Double crisis for displaced civilians

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At a time when governments around the world are asking people to stay at home and limit their travel to contain the spread of Covid-19, armed conflict and violence are forcing hundreds of thousands to flee. Between 23 March and 15 May 2020, armed conflict in 19 countries has displaced at least 661,000 people.   Download

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Homegrown solutions to Pandemic problems: Community-led response to disease

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In this blog, Paul Richards reflects on what aid agencies in South Sudan can learn from the Ebola response in West Africa. Perhaps the most critical is that the response to an infectious disease is most effective, and conflict sensitive, when it works with communities and supports their initiatives, and is least effective when local knowledge is ignored or disregarded. The number of cases of COVID-19 in South Sudan is rising, and there is a…

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Policy Brief: Impact of COVID-19 in Africa

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While the immediate health impact is still evolving, the indirect consequences beyond health already bring a heavy toll. These include food insecurity, lack of medical supplies, loss of income and livelihood, difficulties in applying sanitary and physical distancing measures, a looming debt crisis, as well as related political and security risks. This policy brief takes a snapshot of immediate impacts of the pandemic on health, economies, peace, security, human rights and humanitarian assistance in Africa….

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The ‘youth burden’ needs a new narrative and how we respond to Covid-19 in conflict zones can change it

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In fragile and conflict-affected settings, Covid-19 is increasing vulnerabilities and tensions caused by unequal access to already strained (and often inexistent) social and medical services. This is particularly true for young people – one in every four of whom live in such areas. Despite repeated appeals for a global ceasefire, violence is intensifying in some places whilst some peace processes are also on hold or endangered. Our response to Covid-19 must empower young people through…

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The Dangers of Coronavirus in Conflict Zones

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The health and economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic threaten to reverse decades of development progress. While the international community has mobilized substantial sums of aid and financing to address the pandemic and its impacts, the scale of the crisis demands an even more ambitious response. With the virus’s peak still ahead for many countries, there remains an opportunity to rally support for international collaboration on preventive measures that could stave off the worst-case scenario…

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Covid-19: How do we ensure women aren’t left behind?

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The pandemic is amplifying inequalities and exacerbating violence, insecurity and poverty. This blog post argues that women and girls living in conflict – those who already tend to be unheard and unseen – are being disproportionately impacted and calls for a coordinated and inclusive global response with gender at its core.   Read more

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Shooting the Rapids: COVID-19 and the Long Crisis of Globalisation

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The COVID-19 pandemic marks a turning point in the 21st century – a shock that is characteristic of a long crisis of globalisation where not only opportunities, but risks proliferate rapidly across borders. The emergency has three levels, each of which is unfolding at its own speed: public health (at least two years), economic (five years or more), polarisation and insecurity (a generation).   Download

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COVID-19 in South Sudan’s UN Protection of Civilian Sites

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Civilian protection sites created by the United Nations house large numbers of internally displaced people in crowded conditions, making them vulnerable to illness from COVID-19. Advice for residents to go home or physically distance is not only impossible but distracts from more useful measures which, argues Naomi Pendle, must draw on local leadership.   Read more

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A Rapid Gender analysis on COVID-19 in South Sudan

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South Sudan is a country with already pre-existing inequalities, gender norms and perceptions of who a man and woman is. The experiences of women and girls in South Sudan are starkly different to that of men and boys and the civil war, poverty and societal norms in the country has put women and girls at a disadvantage to seek out a livelihood, good healthcare, education etc. than their male counterparts. The COVID-19 outbreak in South…

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