However, these encouraging responses will most likely be short-lived, and COVID-19 will severely dampen the chances for peace in societies that are affected by violent conflict, particularly in the Global South. Most notably, we see strong social solidarity across the globe – people helping and supporting each other to withstand the pandemic. The “coronavirus puts Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ under pressure,” as the Washington Post aptly put it. Activists and policymakers have also requested easing international sanctions and granting humanitarian exemptions to Iran, Venezuela, and other countries to allow them to better tackle the raging health crisis. Barry Posen has even referred to a pax epidemia. ” In response, the UN brokered a truce in Libya and, in Colombia, to give another example, the guerrilla group ELN stopped its fighting for a month. On 23 March of this year, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global ceasefire to “ fight the true fight of our lives.
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