COVID-19 and Violent Actors in the Global South: A Complex Relationship

Abstract: Shortly after COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic in March 2020, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on violent actors to initiate ceasefires so that energy could be focused on fighting the pandemic. Resonance was low, however - violence even increased in several countries around the globe. Overall, patterns of violence since the spread of COVID-19 have varied significantly over time, between and within Global South regions, and in terms of the most dominant violent actors. The nexus of the external shock of COVID-19 and armed violence is multifaceted and its manifestation highly context-specific. Comparing pre-pandemic patterns of violence with those exhibited in 2020 and 2021 allows us to disentangle pandemic-related from other drivers of violence. Changes in violence dynamics vary across time and space. While the number and frequency of violent events increased in sub-Saharan Africa after the onset of COVID-19, Latin America and the Caribbean along with th

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 10 S.
Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
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Bibliographic citation
GIGA Focus Global ; Bd. 3

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(when)
2022
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Hamburg
(who)
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien
(when)
2022
Contributor
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

DOI
10.57671/gfgl-22032
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-81467-2
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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