Positive Responses to the Pandemic: Collecting and Sharing Examples
This pandemic is the largest public health and disaster management experiment any of us are likely to experience as participant observers. We write as a diverse global group of researchers, teachers and practitioners who have spent decades engaged with natural and technological hazards, humanitarian situations, public health, health psychology and communication. Many will be studying responses by international organizations and national governments. Equally important are the everyday responses of individuals, small groups, neighborhoods, civil society and faith organizations, schools, universities, technical institutes and vocational training centers, small and medium enterprises, and local government units.
We invite people to send examples of what we define as “positive” responses. You can find a draft paper with an expanded discussion here which develops the idea of "positive responses". How are notions of kindness, compassion, care for others and altruism manifesting through a Lowlander perspective? Is social, environmental and historied perspectives reinforced or disrupted in the COVID-19 context?
PLEASE SEND EXAMPLES TO: Ben Wisner at benjamin4319@gmail.com with SUBJECT LINE: Positive responses to COVID-19
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