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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.
This week's
COVID-19 Conflict & Resilience Monitor
5 May 2021
In this week’s Monitor, we feature His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, the former President of Sierra Leone whose piece provides insight into the supportive role of the military during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and puts forward the idea that African militaries have an important role to play in health emergency responses, infrastructural development and other civilian development initiatives.
Also included in this issue, is a piece by Professor Siphamandla Zondi who reflects on how the impact of the COVID-19 crisis has exposed existing structural inequalities between the Global North and South but how the crisis also provides opportunities to build greater resilience through South-South cooperation.
Lastly, we turn to Tanzania in a piece by Dr Muhidin Shangwe who writes about the state’s response to COVID-19 and outlines the possible local and regional implications of this response.
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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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