Establishing Humanitarian Lanes During COVID-19

Alistair DB Cook and Christopher Chen

East Asia Forum

30 June 2020

In a joint commentary, Senior Fellow Alistair D.B. Cook and Associate Research Fellow Christopher Chen from RSIS discussed how COVID-19 is severely impacting the humanitarian system. It has forced countries to focus on containing the pandemic with national lockdown measures – hindering humanitarian action and denying aid to many affected communities in the Asia Pacific, for example.

…Alistair DB Cook is Coordinator of the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre), S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

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