Jaime Jimenez, Ph.D, Deputy Executive Director for Research, Stratbase ADR Institute In the absence or presence of man-made or natural disasters, food production is a commonsensical key process that should be protected and facilitated. In a period of lockdown due to enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to hinder the further spread of the Wuhan virus, food… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute As the Philippines struggles to cope with the debilitating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Filipinos are hoping that the full implementation of the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act will prevent the further spread of the disease and mitigate economic disruption. The law also seeks to facilitate the procurement… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute The outbreak of COVID-19 has become a societal emergency that challenges the overall operations of the state. Stratbase-ADRi believes that a societal emergency such as this demands a whole-of-society response. All sectors of society must do their part to deliver a coordinated and cooperative response that can minimize further… Read More

Paco A. Pangalangan, Executive Director, Stratbase ADR Institute It’s hard to imagine life after COVID-19. But like all pandemics, this too shall pass, and most things will go back to the way they were. When it does, people will flock back to the malls, attend concerts and sporting events, and spend time with friends without… Read More

Edwin Santiago, Fellow and Member of the Editorial Board, Stratbase ADR Institute It’s been more than three months since the world has started talking about the novel coronavirus—now known as COVID-19. For Filipinos, though, the sudden awareness by the majority came when the government declared a lockdown in March, about a month ago. The pandemic… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute Since the virus that causes COVID-19 popped up in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the number of cases around the globe has surpassed the one million mark and the worldwide death toll has already reached more than 50,000. The rapid spread of the virus has tested the limits of… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute In early 2018, a group of medical experts met in a World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored conference in Geneva to project how a global pandemic might take place in the third decade of the 21st century.… Read More