The pandemic and sustainable peace. A combination yet to be understood

This essay aims to verify the existing combination of low levels of sustainable peace and theSARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The hypothesis we want to support is that the aforementioned pandemic wouldn’t have become a world crisis had there been greater investments in social andenvironmental issues, which are the sources of sustainable peace. The applied methodologyis preceded by a brief description of the different meanings of and the interdependencies between sustainable development and peace, a reflection on the main reports, both national (Italian Ministry of Health, Italian National Statistical Institute) and international (UN, UNPD,IMF, WHO, IEP) and a quantitative supplementary analysis of their guidelines insofar as pandemic-related sustainability and sustainable peace are concerned. Our goal is to prove howmuch needed and no longer deferrable is a reading able to reconcile factors that are differentfrom each other when it comes to their nature and content. Such factors are environmentalpollution, climate change, cultural and structural violence, inequalities within individualStates and between States.