Description

In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official responses to it.
The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its longer-term effects open the door to both further conflict escalation and dramatic new opportunities for building peace. In a series of short essays combining social analysis with informed speculation, the contributors examine the impact of the coronavirus crisis on a wide variety of issues, including nationality, social class, race, gender, ethnicity, and religion. They conclude that the period of the pandemic may well constitute a historic turning point, since the overall impact of the crisis is to destabilize existing social and political systems. Not only does this systemic shakeup produce the possibility of more intense and violent conflicts, but also presents new opportunities for advancing the related causes of social justice and civic peace.
This book will be of great interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, public policy and International Relations.
 
Table of Contents
Foreword by Alpaslan Özerdem
Introduction
Richard E. Rubenstein and Solon Simmons
PART I. CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN A PERIOD OF SOCIAL CRISIS
1. Big Peace: An Agenda for Peace and Conflict Studies After the Coronavirus Catastrophe
Solon Simmons
2. Lessons from Disaster: History and the Current Crisis
Peter N. Stearns and Richard E. Rubenstein
3. From the Frying Pan to the Fire: The Next Stage of Environmental Crisis and its Implications for Conflict Resolution
Michael Shank
PART II. GLOBAL POLITICAL CONFLICTS AFTER THE PANDEMIC
4. Pandemics, Globalization and Contentious Politics
Agnieszka Paczynska and Terrence Lyons
5. Global migration after the pandemic
Omar Grech
6. COVID-19, Nationalism, and Changing Political Identities
Karina Korostelina
7. Resolving Great Power Conflicts in the Post-Pandemic Era
Mohammed Cherkaoui
PART III. INTERGROUP CONFLICTS AFTER THE PANDEMIC
8. Twilight of the Market Gods: The Revaluation of Socioeconomic Values in a Period of Social Reconstruction
Michael English
9. The Pandemic and the Struggle for Racial and Ethnic Justice in America
Arthur Romano
10. The Impact of Crisis and Recovery on Gender Relationships, Roles, and Conflicts
Scheherazade Jafari
11. Eternal and Internal Security: Impact of the Crisis on Religious Identity and Peacemaking
Charles Davidson
PART IV. CONFLICT RESOLUTION INITIATIVES AFTER THE PANDEMIC
12. Peace Engineering in a Post- Pandemic World
Alpasian Ozerdem and Lisa Schirch
13. Threats of Escalation and Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine
Oded Adomi Leshem
14. The future of U.S.-China Relations: The Rocky Road to Peace
Gao Qing
Concluding Note
Richard E. Rubenstein and Solon Simmons