COVID-19, Social Dynamics, and Religious Response
Published: 16 March 2023
'COVID-19, Social Dynamics, and Religious Response' Tuesday, 16 March, 12:00-13:30 (UK Time)
Tuesday, 16 March, 12:00-13:30
Riyanti Djalante, Rajan Gurukkal, and Yael Artzy-Randrup
The seminar will have a short lecture by Riyanti Djalante and two response papers followed by a roundtable discussion. Science-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) frameworks depend on efficient decision-making mechanisms for their successful implementation, leaving the “extra mile” to cross beyond scientific advice a matter of social, economic, political, and cultural variables.
As becomes increasingly evident by the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, non-pharmaceutical interventions recommended by the WHO are continuously tested against these variables.
Social dynamics in media, communities, institutions, political systems etc. effectively contribute to the success (or failure) of responding to the crisis; religious institutions feed into these dynamics variously in different parts of the globe.
Riynati Djalante is an expert on DRR and a climate scientist (UN University Tokyo and the Government of Indonesia). Prof Rajan Gurukkal is an expert on South Indian social and political history (Vice-Chairman, Kerala State Higher Education Council). Yael Artzy-Randrup is an expert on epidemiology and complexity studies.
12:00 – 12:25 Dr Riyanti Djalante: COVID-19, Floods and Earthquakes in Indonesia
12:30 – 12:45 Prof Rajan Gurukkal: Response
12:45 – 13: 00 Dr Yael Artzy-Randrup: Response
13:00 – 13:30 Discussion
For those interested to get acquainted with Riyanti Djalante’s work on COVID-19 and disaster risk reduction, see:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259006172030017X
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590061720300284
Video: COVID-19, Social Dynamics and Religious Response
First published: 16 March 2023