Executive Summary
Mapping the structural and proximate causes of conflict in the Caribbean region pre-COVID19 provides insight into the commonalities and potential triggers for conflict in light of the integration of COVID19 in the region. The report explores what the integration of COVID19 means in terms of needs for the consolidation of peace and social cohesion. It makes observations about the dual movement of previous pre-COVID peace connectors and uses expert focus groups and interviews with UN agencies to identify innovations for peacebuilding and social cohesion. The report provides a baseline and foundation for further development of systemic thinking across the region to improve planning for social cohesion.
Insight 1: Conflict systems in the Caribbean region have structural contexts that are not always incorporated in analyses.
Insight 2: These structural contexts and dynamics produce proximate triggers for conflict that can often hide the root causes of conflict in the region and cause misdirection in terms of interventions and policy direction.
Insight 3: Interventions for social cohesion and peacebuilding in the region are not COIVD19 ready and local stakeholders and Governments need to be progressive and innovative moving forward.
Insight 4: Vulnerable groups in the region such as youth, women and the poor were already those who suffered most from neoliberal globalisation and the erosion of collectivism. These same groups are also at the sharp end of COVID19 integration in the region and its implications
Insight 5: State institutions in the region are not trusted by their publics and this impacts solidarity and cooperation with state initiatives and direction
Insight 6: If the UN wants to make the most of its trusted status in the region, UN operations need to be flexible to change in the new COVID19 environment and become less top down and more open to blending bottom up approaches with top down ones
Insight 7: COVID19 is an opportunity to develop new and more progressive systems in the region to enhance social cohesion
Mapping the structural and proximate causes of conflict in the Caribbean region pre-COVID19 provides insight into the commonalities and potential triggers for conflict in light of the integration of COVID19 in the region. The report explores what the integration of COVID19 means in terms of needs for the consolidation of peace and social cohesion. It makes observations about the dual movement of previous pre-COVID peace connectors and uses expert focus groups and interviews with UN agencies to identify innovations for peacebuilding and social cohesion. The report provides a baseline and foundation for further development of systemic thinking across the region to improve planning for social cohesion.
Insight 1: Conflict systems in the Caribbean region have structural contexts that are not always incorporated in analyses.
Insight 2: These structural contexts and dynamics produce proximate triggers for conflict that can often hide the root causes of conflict in the region and cause misdirection in terms of interventions and policy direction.
Insight 3: Interventions for social cohesion and peacebuilding in the region are not COIVD19 ready and local stakeholders and Governments need to be progressive and innovative moving forward.
Insight 4: Vulnerable groups in the region such as youth, women and the poor were already those who suffered most from neoliberal globalisation and the erosion of collectivism. These same groups are also at the sharp end of COVID19 integration in the region and its implications
Insight 5: State institutions in the region are not trusted by their publics and this impacts solidarity and cooperation with state initiatives and direction
Insight 6: If the UN wants to make the most of its trusted status in the region, UN operations need to be flexible to change in the new COVID19 environment and become less top down and more open to blending bottom up approaches with top down ones
Insight 7: COVID19 is an opportunity to develop new and more progressive systems in the region to enhance social cohesion
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