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There Is An Antidote to Our Fear. It’s Called Leadership
“If the coronavirus crisis is analogous to a war — and I believe that it is — Mr. Trump’s initial Easter forecast bears a chilling resemblance to the hollow promises made at the onset of other conflicts, such as our Civil War and World War I, in which the troops would “be home by Christmas” (Elliot Ackerman, 2020).
The Virus Comes for Democracy
“Whatever advantages autocracy might offer for shaping a response to the pandemic, it becomes truly dangerous when the strongman chooses to deny the threat or to give some alternative narrative” (Serge Schmemann, 2020).
Coronavirus and the Dawn of Post-Democratic Europe
"Hungary has used the pandemic to abandon its last vestiges of democracy—and to dare the EU to do anything about it" (Hockenos, 2020)
How Authoritarians Are Exploiting the Covid-19 Crisis to Grab Power
"For authoritarian-minded leaders, the coronavirus crisis is offering a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Censorship in China and elsewhere has fed the pandemic, helping to turn a potentially containable threat into a global calamity. The health crisis will inevitably subside, but autocratic governments’ dangerous expansion of power may be one of the pandemic’s most enduring legacies." (Roth, 2020)
A Silent Spring Is Saying Something
“Every one of the unprecedented, vastly consequential, health and economic measures that state, local and federal officials have taken up to now...reflects an unarticulated ethical position about...how do we maximize the common good in the least heartless way” (Thomas L. Friedman, 2020).
Elections And Covid-19
This Technical Paper offers an initial overview of key points for electoral administrators, governments and civil society organizations on administering elections amid the continued spread of COVID-19. (IDEA, 2020)
Finding the ‘Common Good’ in a Pandemic
“Every one of the unprecedented, vastly consequential, health and economic measures that state, local and federal officials have taken up to now...reflects an unarticulated ethical position about...how do we maximize the common good in the least heartless way” (Thomas L. Friedman, 2020).
What the Great Plague of Athens Can Teach Us Now
"Disease changed the course of the war, and shaped the peace that came afterward, planting the seeds that would destroy Athenian democracy… If the social and moral fiber of a society are already being tested, the widespread fear of death at the hands of an invisible killer makes everything exponentially worse." (Kelaidis, 2020)
Democracy And Peacebuilding In The Framework Of Sdg 16+
This Discussion Paper was developed with input gathered from official key partner organizations that attended several gatherings to discuss the role of global and regional organizations in the advancement of SDG 16, held using the platform provided by the Inter-Regional Dialogue on Democracy at International IDEA. (Consuegra, 2020).
It’s time for mission-led business to step up — with people, not for them
This article examines how “by shifting our collective thinking about the relationships between citizens and businesses, we can build commercial enterprises into platforms for participatory purpose, above and beyond the act of consumption” (Holtaway 2020).
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