Beyond COVID-19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Abstract Several Canadian and international scholars offer commentaries on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for governments and public service institutions, and fruitful directions for public administration research and practice This second suite of commentaries considers the challenges confronting governments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the decades to come with an increasingly broad lens: the need to understand and rethink the architecture of the state given recent and future challenges awaiting governments;the need to rethink government-civil society relations and policies to deliver services for increasingly diverse citizens and communities;the need for new repertoires and sensibilities on the part of governments for recognizing, anticipating, and engaging on governance risks despite imperfect expert knowledge and public skepticism;how the COVID-19 crisis has caused us to reconceive international and sub-national borders where new ?borders? are being drawn;and the need to anticipate a steady stream of crises similar to the COVID-19 pandemic arising from climate change and related challenges, and develop new national and international governance strategies for fostering population and community resilience