Editorial Solidarity and Hope

These are terrible and fearful times. Some 3.55 million people have been infected by COVID-19 and nearly a quarter of a million have perished. Billions of people are on lockdown or in self-isolation, uncertain, lonely and afraid.

Yet this pandemic and the fear, dread, and anxiety that it has caused has led to an increase in solidarity, write Ulrika Modéer and Anna Ryott at United Nations Development Programme (Modeer & Ryott, 2020).

No one doubts that COVID-19 is one of the most serious threats the world has ever faced. And yet, amidst the confusion and anxiety, there are ever stronger signs of hope and solidarity, a sense of, and desire for, togetherness.