Building back better requires integrated approaches that address the impacts of COVID-19 across sectors, including health, environment, climate and urban planning.
For understandable reasons, we often focus on immediate problems. But we risk overlooking important parts of the evidential trail if we do not try to understand the long-term processes that account for present-day circumstances.
Peacebuilding requires long-term and sustained efforts at all levels, and in some cases may have been complicated by the ways in which armed groups have strengthened their position through their response to the pandemic.
“Chiaramente c’è un aspetto interessante che possiamo osservare da queste elezioni in Russia, perché hanno rappresentato un banco di prova del regime circa la sua capacità di controllare e orientare gli esiti di questo processo. Qualunque cosa fosse successo in Ucraina non avrebbe avuto nessuna conseguenza tangibile su quello che era questo passaggio elettorale.”