Fletcher Voices: “The Tiniest Microcosm and the Largest Macro Effects” — Reinventing Peace

This essay is part of a series, Fletcher Voices. WPF invited students at Tufts University’s the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy to submit short essays reflecting on the impact of coronavirus. Akshobh Giridharadas is a Director with BowerGroupAsia based out of Washington D.C. Prior to which, Akshobh was with a consultant with the World Bank. A journalist by profession, Akshobh Giridharadas was based out of Singapore as a reporter and producer with Channel News Asia, Singapore covering international business news. He writes on diverse topics such as geopolitics, business, tech and sports. His previous endeavours include working at ESPN STAR and FOX networks. He is a two time TEDx and Toastmasters public speaker and is a 2019 graduate from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts.

As I wrote in a recent article that I published on COVID-19, that from a seafood market in Central China to financial markets around the world, never has there been one single phenomenon that has captured the world’s fears in such an unprecedented manner and has arrested all economic activity and mobility.

Like virus, like conundrum; this has mutated, percolated, transferred from host to host and pervasive from coast to coast. The problems too have changed shape and size in drastic…