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.
Despite rapid intervention and a high level of community engagement, the scale of the damage suffered by the city of Beirut goes beyond the scope of the humanitarian response.
“In passato, il clientelismo era considerato patologico. Adesso, è diventato sistema praticamente ovunque: in Russia, in Cina, negli Stati Uniti. Un sistema universale, insomma, che spiega il fatto rilevante del perché la vecchia distinzione tra autocrazie e democrazie stia progressivamente perdendo di significato. Non voglio dire che tutti i regimi sono uguali, ma che molti di essi sono governati da élite in dialogo tra loro. Trump va d’accordo con Putin perché sono due oligarchi, in due sistemi diversi.”