The COVID Revolution
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to revitalize postwar institutions, address shortcomings in democratic governance, and launch a global attack on the virus. Ending the pandemic and building a better future will, above all, require the world to develop new norms to replace worn-out, insular beliefs.
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OTTAWA – In December 1862, in the throes of the American Civil War, which pitted the norms of slavery against the norms of freedom, US President Abraham Lincoln presented his emancipation plan to Congress. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present,” he declared. “The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”