Leadership for Thought: Non-Permanent members lead the Security Council through COVID-19
Leadership for Thought: Non-Permanent members lead the Security Council through COVID-19

Author(s): Elizabeth Deheza
Subject(s): Politics, Governance, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije IFIMES
Keywords: security council; COVID-19; non-permanent members; leadership;
Summary/Abstract: China held the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council in March this year: COVID19 was deemed not to be a security issue. By the end of March, confirmed deaths with the virus had grown past 40,000 globally and the U.N.’s Secretary General, António Guterres, stated that the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 were a multiplier of instability, unrest and conflict 2 in an attempt to engage the Security Council. The Presidency of the Security Council passed to the Dominican Republic this month and the Caribbean country has the opportunity to spur the Security Council into action.

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