Conflicts increased in Africa shortly after COVID-19 lockdowns, but welfare assistance reduced fatalities

Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105991

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“…Paradoxically, resources and attention directed towards conflict‐affected and conflict‐vulnerable environments were reduced at a time when they were most needed: because the direct and indirect effects of COVID‐19, as well as responses to address the pandemic, can feed conflict dynamics. For instance, the indirect economic impacts, including economic shocks, extreme poverty, and food insecurity, were considered by several research participants to ‘increase tensions’ (interviewee) and have a negative bearing on conflict dynamics (see also Gutiérrez‐Romero, 2022, on COVID‐19‐related food insecurity contributing to conflict events and fatalities in Africa, and Fearon and Laitin, 2003, and Hendrix and Brinkman, 2013, on the consequences for conflict dynamics of poverty and food insecurity, respectively). Poverty, for example, can be used by armed groups to push recruitment drives (Collier and Hoeffler, 2004; Mehrl and Thurner, 2021), as was seen in Colombia at the height of the COVID‐19 pandemic (interviewee; see also Taylor, 2020).…”

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“…Pivoting also belies the interconnectedness of crises: pivoting towards COVID‐19 and then the war in Ukraine, for instance, belies awareness of how these crises can affect global conflict dynamics, including how the pandemic compromised state and community resilience (Farzanegan and Gholipour, 2023), and how both the pandemic (Gutiérrez‐Romero, 2022) and the war in Ukraine (Mottaleb, Kruseman, and Snapp, 2022) intensified food insecurity.…”

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Conflict, COVID‐19, and crisis response: shifting from ‘pivoting’ to preparedness

Gordon

2024

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This paper assesses the extent to which COVID‐19 directed the attention and resources of the international community away from peacebuilding, and the potential impact on conflict‐affected environments. The paper draws from a global survey, interviews, and conversations with peacebuilding practitioners, publicly‐available data on peacebuilding funding and real‐time data on conflict events from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset (ACLED). The paper argues that resources and attention have “pivoted” away from peacebuilding to address the threat presented by COVID‐19, and that this can – but does not always – adversely impact conflict dynamics. It argues that this “pivoting” belies the interconnectedness of crises, leads to “forgotten crises” and escalating threats, and exposes deficiencies in peacebuilding funding and, more broadly, preparedness and crisis response. Crises do, however, provide opportunities for reflection and change, including how to address these deficiencies and, in so doing, advance more efficient, effective, and ethical practice.

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Conflict, COVID‐19, and crisis response: shifting from ‘pivoting’ to preparedness

Gordon

2024

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“…High population density appears to be associated with cancers, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases (Carnegie et al, 2022); a higher risk of transmission of COVID-19, especially with the Delta variant (Jamal et al, 2022;Md Iderus et al, 2022); poor living conditions, such as insufficient access to healthy food, drinking water, poverty-related diseases with poor healthcare access. Also, food vulnerability and price volatility are an explosive combination for certain types of conflicts (Gutiérrez-Romero, 2022).…”

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Healthcare Challenges due to Global Conflict Escalation Amid the Pandemic, Climate, and Economic Dilemmas

Mohiuddin¹

2023

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Aim: Shockwaves have been felt all over the world as a result of war, inflation, food shortages, and the COVID-19 pandemic's long tail. The aim of the study is to correlate present global conflicts, pandemic and socio-economic crises with present healthcare sustainability, identifying possible threats and visualize future global health crises if all these catastrophes persist for long. Materials and Methods: PubMed, ALTAVISTA, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Central Registers were prioritized to collect public health issues. Results: The global economic slowdown, sharp decline in financial asset values, decline in imports and exports, contraction of industrial production, rise in inflation, decrease in wages, rise in unemployment, damage to the social security caused by numerous natural calamities, human displacement due to pandemic and ongoing conflicts tear down not only the economic sector but also the health sector. It is already late for taking corrective measure by the participation every country, community or intelligence. Only healthcare issues, highlighted in this study, if focused in the highest platforms, could compel global leaders to forego conflicts and work together. Conclusion: The global health sector will be collapsed soon, if proper initiatives are not taken right now, which has already been grossly mistreated by the pandemic.

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“…According to the 2018 World Innovation Summit for Health, 60% of chronically food insecure and malnourished people globally, including 75% of all children with stunted growth, live in conflict-affected countries (Fig. 6) [298].…”

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Global Health Issues With Conflict Escalation Among Pandemic, Climate, and Economic Crises

Mohiuddin

2023

Innovare J H Sci

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Religion, governance, and politics - as well as related topics such as human rights, justice, and so on - have historically caused many of the world’s most significant conflicts, and they continue to do so because these issues are often the most fundamental in the structure of a society. To gain a military advantage, parties to armed conflicts have polluted water, burned crops, cut down forests, poisoned soils, and killed animals over the years. A variety of context factors, particularly socioeconomic conditions, governance, and political factors, interact and play a key role in translating climate change into conflict risks. The present unrest all over the world risks putting more than half of the countries into a crisis of health, economy, and social safety, which remains the most constant threat to human civilization. The security and safety of health-care facilities, workers, and supply lines remain paramount concerns, along with access to health services, technology, and innovation.

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Conflicts increased in Africa shortly after COVID-19 lockdowns, but welfare assistance reduced fatalities

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Conflict, COVID‐19, and crisis response: shifting from ‘pivoting’ to preparedness

Conflict, COVID‐19, and crisis response: shifting from ‘pivoting’ to preparedness

Healthcare Challenges due to Global Conflict Escalation Amid the Pandemic, Climate, and Economic Dilemmas

Global Health Issues With Conflict Escalation Among Pandemic, Climate, and Economic Crises

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