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Shafiqul Islam, from Engineering and Fletcher, writes this piece outlining how Bangladesh can minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cummings School Adjunct Professor Wiku Adisasmito writes this opinion piece on how Indonesia can learn from other countries how to develop a customized COVID-19 mitigation strategy.

The Talloires Network and the Open Society University Network (OSUN) announced the launch of the OSUN-TN Educational Partnership with a new project aimed at supporting universities engaged in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Communities Of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence (or “COV-AID”). The pilot phase of COV-AID consists of two parts: a six month webinar series entitled “Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope;” and a Student Engagement Award.

Fletcher's Chris Miller explores the similarities between COVID-19 and the fall of the Soviet Union, in an op-ed for The New York Times.

Fletcher Dean Rachel Kyte writes that now is the time to reset our institutions and economies towards decarbonization, in an op-ed for Thomson Reuters Foundation.

A&S anthropologist Sarah Pinto discusses here new book, "The Doctor & Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis."

Fletcher's Bhaskar Chakravorti calls on social media leadership to enforce stricter standards around COVID-19 information, in an op-ed for The Indian Express.

Fletcher’s John Shattuck writes why a controversial law that has granted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán unlimited governance powers in response to the Coronavirus epidemic is an abuse of power that “suspend[s] democracy in ways that will outlast the current emergency.”

Alumnus Kartikeya Batra (F15) publishes op-ed in The Quint on how nationalist leaders are responding to COVID19.