Governance in the age of complexity: building resilience to COVID-19 and future pandemics
Didier Wernli, Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Nikola Biller‐Andorno, Böttcher, Lucas, John Berezowski, Claudine Burton‐Jeangros, Karl Blanchet, Mia Louise Clausin, Gérard Escher, Antoine Flahault, Keiji Fukuda, Dirk Helbing, Philip D. Jaffé, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Yuliya Kaspiarovich, Jaya Krishnakumar, Roderick J. Lawrence, Kelley Lee, Anaïs Léger, Nicolas Levrat, Romain Martischang, Chantal Morel, Didier Pittet, Maxime Stauffer, Fabrizio Tediosi, Flore Vanackere, Jean‐Dominique Vassalli, Gaélane Wolff, Oran R. Young
Abstract
This policy brief aims to promote a holistic mindset about the COVID-19 pandemic by 1) applying a complexity lens to understand its drivers, nature, and impact, 2) proposing actions to build resilient societies to pandemics, and 3) deriving principles to govern complex systemic crises. Building resilience to prevent, react to, and recover from systemic shocks need to become a core element of how societies are governed. This requires an integrated approach between health, social, economic, environmental, and institutional systems. The brief has been developed by a team of researchers coming from both the natural and social sciences.1 Reviewed by a group of policy actors,2 the brief aims to foster a dialogue between academic institutions and policymakers.