ENDURE: Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World

我们研究COVID-19大流行的中长期社会影响，不仅是为了了解发生了什么，而且是为了确保符合联合国COVID复苏研究路线图的“公平、有弹性和可持续的未来”。具体而言，我们将来自疫情最严重国家的跨学科团队聚集在一起，解决以下问题：1-公平通过深入的微观层面研究，该项目直接探讨了为什么某些人群由于社会经济地位、年龄、种族背景和文化习俗等因素而受到的影响比其他人群更严重。该研究的目的是：* 了解COVID 19危机期间和之后存在的不平等以及伴随的动员（去动员）过程。从经验上讲，我们研究了弱势群体（妇女、少数民族、低技能工人、土著人民、贫困社区）如何能够或不能动员起来要求他们的权利。我们对卫生公平的动员（去动员）以及在封锁期间和之后的大流行背景下出现的不同类型的动员感兴趣，这些动员揭示了表达公众需求的替代方式。* 探讨支持政策应对的伦理考虑。我们探讨了政策在多大程度上足以解决社会脆弱性，并询问如何使政策更加公平，以确保未来的弹性。2-弹性通过多标量研究，我们探讨了如何使社会具有内在的弹性，以科普不断增加和新出现的挑战。* 我们使用一项实验性调查来研究疫情如何影响公众对不平等的态度，以及制度环境对社会复原力的影响。近年来，不同的学科对弹性提出了不同的理解。尽管在许多学术领域有大量的研究兴趣，但学者们很少跨学科进行讨论。作为ENDURE的最终成果，我们认为需要一个协调的复原力范式和理论来应对全球社会目前在COVID-19背景下面临的诸多挑战。我们寻求采取措施弥合纪律峡谷。基于对话和跨学科的对话，关于跨学科和研究领域研究弹性的本体论，认识论和规范方面，我们希望将这些碎片放在一起，提出一个统一的，多方面的和多学科的弹性概念。3-可持续性虽然公平和韧性创造了我们想要的未来，但社会的可持续性只能通过适当的治理和健康的媒体环境来实现。通过研究治理机制和沟通，通过跨大西洋的伙伴关系，我们制定循证知情的建议和恢复和政治参与进程的机制。我们研究：* 在应对COVID-19的封锁和疫苗方面的治理结构，并分析COVID-19如何导致不同形式的治理模式; * 在COVID-19大流行期间的国际合作，特别是关于国际组织（IO）的能力和合法性，* 危机治理措施对民主和自由的影响程度以及由此产生的社会长期变革。政府官员、卫生专业人员、研究人员、科学顾问和媒体在多大程度上进行了有效、合乎道德和准确的宣传。

We study the medium and long-term societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, not only to understand what happened, but to ensure an "equitable, resilient and sustainable future" in line with the UN Research Roadmap for COVID recovery. Specifically, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team based in some of the countries that were hardest hit by the pandemic, we address the following:1- EquityThrough in-depth micro-level research, the project directly examines why some populations were affected more adversely than others due to the pandemic by virtue of factors such as socioeconomic status, age, ethnic background and cultural practices. The aim of the research is to: * understand existing inequity and accompanying processes of (de)mobilization during and after the COVID19 crisis. Empirically, we examine how disadvantaged groups (women, minorities, low-skilled workers, indigenous peoples, poorer communities) could or could not mobilize to demand their rights. We are interested in (de-)mobilizations for health equity as well as different types of mobilizations that have emerged in the context of the pandemic during lockdowns and afterward and that reveal alternative ways of expressing public demands. * to explore the ethical considerations underpinning policy responses. We explore the extent to which policies were adequate in addressing social vulnerabilities and ask how policies may be made more equitable to ensure resilience in the future.2- ResilienceThrough multi-scalar research, we explore how societies can be made inherently resilient to cope with mounting and emerging challenges. We focus on the following dimensions of resilience:* We use an experimental survey to examine how the pandemic impacted public attitudes towards inequality and the effect of institutional contexts on societal resilience.* Different disciplines have proposed different understandings of resilience in recent years. Despite the volume of research interest in a host of academic fields, scholars rarely talk across the disciplines. As the ultimate result of ENDURE, we posit that a harmonized paradigm and theory of resilience is required to address the many challenges that global society is currently facing in the context of COVID-19. We seek to take steps toward bridging disciplinary canyons. Building upon dialogue and cross-disciplinary conversations about the ontological, epistemological, and normative aspects of studying resilience across disciplines and fields of research, we want to pull the pieces together to propose a unified, multifaceted and multidisciplinary view of the concept of resilience. We believe such an approach is both propitious and timely.3- SustainabilityWhile equity and resilience create the future we want, the sustainability of society can only be achieved through proper governance and a healthy media environment. By studying governance mechanisms and communication through transatlantic partnerships, we develop evidence-informed advice and mechanisms for recovery and political participation processes. We examine:* governance structures in responding COVID-19 in terms of lockdowns and vaccines and analyze how COVID-19 led to different forms of governance models; * International cooperation during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially regarding the capacity and legitimacy of International Organizations (IOs),* the extent to which crisis governance measures impacted democracy and freedom and the long-term transformations of society that resulted.* the extent to which effective, ethical and accurate communication was undertaken by government officials, health professionals, researchers, scientific advisers, and the media.