From a peace and security lens, the imperatives of COVID-19 revealed that health pandemics are potent threats to the gains recorded around peace and security, and that social distancing is the new norm at least for the foreseeable future, hence the quintessential need for adaptation measures going forward. It also revealed the huge limitations of government interventions especially in emergency situations, emphasizing the importance of the complementary roles of CSOs to government interventions, while acknowledging that the private sector are paradigm players in the peace and security arena through their corporate social responsibility duties.