ABSTRACT
In an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, governments issued sweeping mandatory stay-at-home orders and closures of non-essential businesses and infrastructure. At a time when the international community must act quickly, decisively, and collectively to solve these complex public health and mental health problems, populist nationalism has taken hold across the globe. The disciplines of public health and mental health must be better integrated and adapted to address atrocity prevention and response in both study and practice. Multidisciplinary and multi-systemic perspectives are represented among the volume’s editors and authors, including political science, international studies, law, public health, mental health, philosophy, clinical psychology, social psychology, anthropology, history, and peace studies. The authors offer a collective narrative that demonstrates the state of the current fields on intersecting themes within public health, mental health, and mass atrocity prevention as well as potential future directions for these intersections.
