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Tag: Covid-19

Peace and Pandemic: Creating a digital exhibition in a global crisis

by Shannen Johnson1 October 2020

Shannen Johnson of the Peace Museum reflects on the challenges of curating a digital exhibition devoted to documenting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on peace and protest in the UK.

BLM, Covid-19, protest

Kneel where Protest is Valid: Security through Subversive Memory

by barrettclive21 July 2020

Clive Barrett argues that a radical review of national, community and family memory would empower resistance to racism and right-wing extremism.

Covid-19, Memory

Sustainable Security: Defining, Measuring and Building Security after Covid-19

by Abigail Watson9 July 2020

Abigail Watson and Alasdair McKay make the case for Sustainable Security, incorporating a broader range of risk drivers and responses than the national security approach. Embracing this would be an opportunity for the UK to strategise a more secure society and world after Covid-19.

climate change, Covid-19, Inequality, Integrated Review

Normalising the Exceptional as a Serious Security Threat

by Rethinking Security network26 June 202025 June 2020

Jørgen Johansen argues that, like terrorism before it, the Covid-19 pandemic is being used by politicians across the world to normalise exceptional restrictions on basic rights with political consequences that will long outlast the health emergency.

Covid-19, surveillance

Asylum Seekers Face Isolation and Destitution amid Covid-19

by Loraine16 June 202015 June 20201 Comment

Loraine Masiya Mponela, the chairperson of Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group (CARAG), reflects on the unique challenges being faced by asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in the UK during the pandemic.

Covid-19, Migration

Decarbonise, Demilitarise, Democratise: Building a resilient economy in a post-Covid-19 world

by Steven Schofield18 May 2020

Steven Schofield argues that the scale of economic devastation likely to follow the Covid-19 crisis redoubles the case for a Green New Deal to rebuild more resilient, sustainable and inclusive communities.

Covid-19

Planetary Renewal: Covid-19 and Kindness Refound

by Diana Francis12 May 202012 May 20201 Comment

Diana Francis argues that extraordinary times have helped to revive the everyday kindness that must be at the heart of rebuilding a more caring, sustainable and secure world after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Covid-19, Planetary Security

From Violence to Ventilators: Does arms conversion start here?

by Philip Austin6 May 20206 May 2020

Powerful interests have long opposed the conversion of arms industries to more socially useful production. The coronavirus crisis might just be changing that dynamic.

Arms industry, Covid-19

Pandemic exposes government security failure

by Kate Hudson29 March 20206 May 2020

Kate Hudson exposes the sustained and deadly failure of UK government to invest in responding to the security threats, including pandemics and natural disasters, that its own analysis has prioritised.

Covid-19, Integrated Review, Nuclear Weapons
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War, Revolution and Coronavirus: The Human Security case for universal income

by Andrew Rigby24 March 20206 May 20201 Comment

As the coronavirus crisis precipitates the most rapid and far-reaching economic interventions in British history, Andrew Rigby argues that providing Universal Basic Income is now fundamental to human security.

Covid-19, Inequality
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