How the U.N. Can Mitigate the Coronavirus Pandemic’s Impact on Peacekeeping

Louise Riis Andersen, Richard Gowan 

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Since it began to spread rapidly earlier this year, the coronavirus pandemic has had a visible impact on United Nations peacekeeping operations. Peacekeepers have practiced social distancing, minimized interactions with local populations and tried to help fragile states handle the disease. Yet the long-term economic and political consequences for peacekeeping look like they will be more severe.