Converge – Covid – 19 Working Group
Itstime Working Group: COVID-19 and Viral Violence
The COVID-19 and Viral Violence Working Group focuses on empirical considerations about the relations between the COVID-19 pandemic and various forms of violence, emerging during the crisis management. The focus area consists of multidisciplinary perspectives on political extremisms taking advantage from the pandemic; violent responses to violations of the quarantine; interpersonal violence; and civil unrest against crisis management measures.
Working Group Lead
Barbara Lucini, Catholic University of Sacred Heart
Email: barbara.lucini@unicatt.it
Working Group Members
Maria Alvanou, Neapolis University Pafos
Giovanni Gugg, University of Naples Federico II
Learn more about CONVERGE: it is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Publication:
Police and COVID-19: implications to consider – by Maria Chr. Alvanou
Extremist avantgarde and fake news in time of pandemic – by Barbara Lucini
The Incappucciati, disinformation, digital responsibility and global citizenship – by Giovanni Gugg