COVID-19 and Peace in Conflict-Affected Areas
Definition
:1. Introduction
2. The Concept of Peace
3. How Do We Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on Peace?
4. Survey of COVID-19 and Peace in Conflict-Affected Areas
5. What Determined COVID-19’s Impact on Peace?
5.1. Pre-Existing Conditions
5.2. Responses to the Pandemic
6. Conclusions
- The relationship between COVID-19 and peace has been explored from a variety of perspectives. Different studies on the link between COVID-19 and peace in conflict-affected areas exist, but little work has been done on assessing them to understand their key points.
- This article has discussed the major research findings on the impact of COVID-19 and state responses to it on some aspects of peace in conflict-affected areas, including relations between conflict parties, peace efforts and peace processes. The conflict-affected areas considered include Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Sudan, Syria, the Philippines, Yemen, and other zones.
- The central finding of the paper is that the existing studies on COVID-19 and peace in conflict-affected areas present mixed findings. On the one hand, the virus generated opportunities for cooperation between conflict parties in some cases, such as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip of Israel-Palestine. However, on the other hand, it created conditions that enabled conflict and impeded peace efforts and processes in many or most conflict-affected areas.
- Given that peace in conflict-affected areas is broader than the issues that have been the primary foci of this paper, a more comprehensive review of existing evidence is required to get a wider understanding of the impact of the virus on peace in the areas.
- In addition, since the global COVID-19 situation is still evolving, its full impact on peace in conflict-affected areas will be understood when its long-term effects are examined in future.
- This paper will be useful in future analyses. It has considered existing evidence on how COVID-19 affected relations between conflict parties, peace efforts, and peace processes in conflict-affected areas.
Funding
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Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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