COVID-19 & Conflict
ACCORD has rapidly adapted to the new COVID-19 reality and has refocused and restructured a significant proportion of its staff and effort on identifying & monitoring, tracking & analysing, and preparing & responding to COVID-19 related social unrest and violent conflict in Africa.
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ACCORD’s focus on COVID-19
ACCORD has adapted to the new COVID-19 reality, refocusing and restructuring a significant proportion of its staff and its effort on identifying & monitoring, tracking &, analysing, and preparing & responding to COVID-19 related social-unrest and violent conflict in Africa.
Through our networks across Africa, and supported by available online data, ACCORD identifies COVID-19 related incidents and trends that may provide early warning of rising tensions that could develop into social unrest and violent conflict. Once the incidents are captured in the dataset, ACCORD analyses the trends and publishes a weekly COVID-19 Africa Conflict and Resilience Monitor, in order to share the information and analysis with all stakeholders.
ACCORD then works with its in-country networks and other local, regional, continental and international partners and stakeholders, to encourage and support interventions aimed at mitigating, and where possible preventing, COVID-19 related social unrest and violent conflict.
ACCORD COVID-19 Conflict & Resilience Monitor
8 July 2020
In this week’s Monitor, we focus on resilience and the role that the African Union and national and international peacebuilding plays in strengthening social cohesion and community resilience.
Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu, one of the members of the board of trustees of the recently formed African Union COVID-19 Response Fund, leads this week’s Monitor with an overview of the work, objectives and importance of this initiative in Africa’s collective efforts to curb the spread and minimise the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus.
James Henry Murray follows with a think piece on how public trust in governance and institutions has emerged as an important element that determines the resilience of societies to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marisha Ramdeen notes an increase in COVID-19-related social and political protests, especially in the health, education, politics and service delivery sectors, and suggests that this will be one of the categories to watch in the upcoming months.
Lastly, Cedric de Coning considers the impact of COVID-19 on peacebuilding to date. He suggests that in future, we will travel less and use more digital means to communicate and collaborate. However, the most positive change, accelerated by COVID-19, is a shift to national and local capacities for peace.
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ACCORD is an African based global conflict management institution and think tank with 28 years of experience.
The COVID-19 crisis had disrupted ACCORD’s usual work, but the Institution has rapidly adapted and it has now refocused and restructured a significant proportion of its staff and effort on identifying & monitoring, tracking &, analysing and responding to the COVID-19 related social-unrest and violent conflict in Africa.
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