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.
“Nel conflitto russo-ucraino si è visto che la Russia usa un sistema logistico ancora molto labour-intensive. L’Ucraina è in qualche modo riuscita ad adeguarsi a standard della Nato che sono molto più capital-intensive: laddove i trasporti sono standardizzati, i pezzi di artiglieria sono autocaricanti. Oggi serve effettivamente meno gente per fare la guerra.”