The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspect of life and it has sought to multifaceted crisis in a global scale. With the continued of health crisis caused by this communicable disease, medical device and personal protection equipment become precious commodity for the general public and healthcare professionals. Therefore, there is a growing demand of Personal Protection Equipment especially face mask and N95 respirators in all over countries. Unfortunately, the decade of expansive trade had been distorted by pandemic of Covid-19 that made the medical supplies cannot meet the global demand. Prior to the outbreak of covid-19, there was an interdependency of medical supplies trade through Global Value Chain. GVC had made the production of medical supplies are effectively fragmented and globally integrated. This article tries to examine the architecture of global medical supply through the lens of Global Value Chain (GVC) before and after pandemic. Using a qualitative methodology this article tries to provide analytical descriptive on global medical devices fragmentation. We use the full UN Comtrade data from 1990 to 2018, Foreign Direct Investment Data from OECD and mass media news to track the shifting of medical devices production during pandemic. The main results indicate that the worsening situation of Pandemic Covid-19 has brought state actors and non-state actors to create new pattern in GVC to provide medical devices worldwide. Finally, this article aims to cast a light on the importance of global cooperation and trade interdependency during crisis.
This research uses a qualitative methodology by using inductive logic which tries to present new alternative thinking. This research explains a conflict management in Kampung Harapan Jaya, Berau Regency, East Kalimantan. Through discourse analysis, the study seeks to analyze the management of conflicts formed through both formal and informal approaches. The purpose of this research is to contribute to the theoretical realm while making new findings that can be translated into an alternative policy for the government in the context of conflict management in plural areas. The main finding of this research shows that the conflict in Kampung Harapan Jaya is managed through three approaches, namely the figure approach, the region governance approach, and the socio-economic interaction approach among the local community. The region’s governance approach leads to a negative peace situation. Meanwhile, the approach the informal interaction through socio-economic activities based on the local wisdom act has greater potential in creating positive peace situations. This research is important as a contribution to the issue of peace studies based on best practice research
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