JWE’s “The World After Covid” webinar series

Since early 2020, the eruption of Covid-19 and the many consequences of this pandemic have shaken to its core the international system that humankind has known since 1945. This has opened the way for great risks but also for many exciting new possibilities to build a more just and sustainable world.

In the first phase of this project, JWE President and former Christian Science Monitor columnist Helena Cobban has been holding weekly webinars with a range of guests who have thought deeply about the United States’ role in the world, the effects Covid-19 has had on the global balance, and the opportunities this moment provides to build a better world for all of humankind.

Throughout June and July 2020, we are presenting these interactive webinars every Wednesday at 1pm ET. They can be accessed via either Zoom or Facebook. All the sessions are open to the public at no charge. The videos of past sessions have been archived, and can all be viewed at our new Resource Center, here.

If you want to participate in the webinars by Zoom, pre-registration is required. Please use this link to register: bit.ly/World-After. (Only one registration is required for the whole series.)

Check back soon to learn about the further directions this project will take in Fall 2020!

Please spread the news about this project widely with your friends!


The first seven sessions, June 10 – July 22, featured these guests:


The final session in this series, July 29, will feature:

** July 29, Hans-Christof von Sponeck and Richard Falk. Hans-Christof von Sponeck was one of the first conscientious objectors in the Federal Republic of Germany. He had a distinguished career in the United Nations, serving as a U.N. Assistant Secretary-General and U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq– until he resigned from that position in 2000 to protest against the US-led sanctions policies of the UN Security Council. He currently teaches at the Conflict Research Center of the University of Marburg. Prof. Richard Falk is a world-renowned expert on international law who spent six years, 2008-14, as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories. (We are also proud that Falk is a member of the Just World Ed board.)