By: Imad Ud Din
The coronavirus pandemic is a force changing the worldwide framework. The virus, COVID-19, is quickening a progression of disintegrative procedures, which could wind up introducing the hot anticipated post–Cold War world. The future has been hindered by a progression of patterns. The first has been simply the developing of the political clout of the depicted “washouts” of globalization, as shown in both right-and left-wing populist developments in all the democratic governments of the World particularly the west. The protectionism has organized rebounds in an as far as anyone knows the borderless world of the twenty-first century.
The world is becoming more harmonized and peaceful than before. We don’t find escalations among the countries.
The China’s capacity to modify the guidelines of the post–Cold War world furthering its potential benefit. In grasping the advantages of the U.S.- driven global framework, Beijing has not correspondingly developed its local types of administration or its international strategy along lines favored by Washington. Americans today have a sense of safety and progressively helpless, to some extent since they have lost confidence in globalization.
It may nearly appear to be insensitive during these troublesome times to talk about circumstances rising up out of the COVID-19. However certain states rising up out of war or near the precarious edge of financial breakdown, I see the chance of what researchers call a “positive harmony” following the pandemic. To react to the incomprehensible states of this virus, the UN has propelled the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), a planned exertion between a few offices including UNDP, and driven by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The world is becoming more harmonized and peaceful than before. We don’t find escalations among the countries. The children in Yemen are at peace, the women in Syria are at peace. So far only one terrorist attack took place and that was in Afghanistan. Even Afghanistan is at peace and Pashtoons, Hazara Community, Minorities and other marginalized communities are seemed to be in a better world and no killings, abductions or cases of any assaults are being reported or seen so far.
This pandemic is moving us to reevaluate the manner in which we work, to discover extra and novel approaches to advance tranquil goals of contentions in the locales we work. Reaction to the virus may have helpful impacts for the manner in which we approach. The post-war era that has persuaded a significant part of the world for as long as seven decades has hushed individuals into a suspicion that all is well and good – and, confronted with such an emergency, they are dubious about how to act or react to their own circumstance, not even to mention others. This has led us to work with our accomplices and individual explorers right now on viable and creative approaches to decrease brutality, advance discourse and advance harmony understandings, just as to keep up help for our basic destinations.
ROLES OF NONSTATE ACTORS The virus may likewise reshape connections between nonstate on-screen characters and governments, with significant ramifications for governments. The Taliban in Afghanistan are as of now investing in helping out health authorities from global associations like the World Health Organization that ordinarily team up with sovereign governments. Middle Easterner governments are activating ruling Islamic organizations and specialists to assist them with dealing with the emergency, which may assist them with making up for low degrees in authentic interchanges and mandates—while possibly fortifying government command over the strict space. However, non-state on-screen characters’ improved job in executing peace reactions may likewise fortify their authenticity and authority.
TIME TO PREPARE While we look ahead, all local and transnational entities worried about democratic government’s future should intently screen the wide-going, quick-moving political impacts of the pandemic, and quickly devise reactions to diminish potential hurdle, and hold onto any positive open doors the emergency may introduce. May be considerably greater rush of political interruption that will be brought about by the unfurling worldwide economic emergency. After the international economic emergency that emitted in 2008, few predicted the long tail of negative political outcomes. However that emergency at last introduced the ascent and spread of illiberal populism, fracture of group frameworks,divisions, and union of a few dictator systems—long after economic recuperation was in progress. In any case, similarly as the virus regards no outskirts, its political impacts will unavoidably clear across limits and keep on reverberating. Right now is an ideal opportunity to prepare ourselves for the different and difficult days to come.
The writer is a peace activist, a blogger, freelance writer and currently working with an Islamabad based Think Tank as Research Associate. He can be reached at [email protected]
