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Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers
"This chapter explores digital drivers of conflict. We examine how technologies are affecting conflict dynamics and what peacebuilders can do to mitigate these effects. We argue that because digital technologies are fundamentally altering the human experience, they are by extension fundamentally alt
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Post-regime-change Afghan and Iraqi media systems: Strategic ambivalence as technology of media governance
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 2 (2021), pp. 228-245
"This article investigates the governance of post-US invasion Afghan and Iraqi media systems by analyzing provisions pertinent to public broadcasting, licensing, and defamation in 14 laws and policy documents in the two nations. The author argues that the results point to a regime of regulatory ambi
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Strategy for the Digital Transformation of UN Peacekeeping
New York: United Nations Peacekeeping (2021), 34 pp.
Growing Together, Remaining Apart: The Role of Digital Technology in Former Guerrilla Fighters’ Social Capital
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, volume 5, issue CSCW2 (2021), 24 pp.
"In this paper, we present an account of how FARC-EP ex-combatants are using digital technology in the process of reincorporating into Colombian society. We report findings showing how this technology mediates the difficult task of transitioning from a culture of opposition to civilian members and a
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Social Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding: Issues and Challenges. A Discussion Paper
Washington, DC: Mercy Corps (2021), 12 pp.
Media and Compassion After Digital War: Why Digital Media Haven’t Transformed Responses to Human Suffering in Contemporary Conflict
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 102, issue 913 (2021), pp. 117-143
"In this article I contend that the saturation of information and images of human suffering and death in contemporary warfare has not ushered in a new era of “compassion fatigue”. Rather, algorithmically charged outrage is a proxy for effects. It is easy to misconstrue the velocity of linking an
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Information Interventions and Social Media
Internet Policy Review, volume 10, issue 2 (2021), 25 pp.
"[...] While mass media, including TV or radio, have long been recognised as a key actor in the escalation of violent conflicts, the scale of dissemination and the degree of accountability of digital actors involved is different. Although the doctrine of information intervention initially evolved to
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External Communication in Social Media During Asymmetric Conflicts: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Case Study of the Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 310 pp.
"Social media increasingly shapes the way in which we perceive conflicts and conflict parties abroad. Conflict parties, therefore, have started using social media strategically to influence public opinion abroad. This book explores the phenomenon by examining, (1) which strategies of external commun
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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 239 pp.
"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So
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Digital Inclusion in Mediated Peace Processes: How Technology Can Enhance Participation
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2020), 44 pp.
"Inclusion in peace processes is conventionally understood in “offline” terms, such as being physically present at the negotiation table. However, digital technology can support a mediator’s efforts to integrate a broad variety of perspectives, interests, and needs into a peace process. This r
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Digital Peacebuilding Playbook: Social Media
The Commons (2020), 19 pp.
Digital Technologies and War
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 102, issue 913 (2020), pp. 1-444
25 Spheres of Digital Peacebuilding and PeaceTech
Deep Insights
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute; Alliance for Peacebuilding (2020), 28 pp.
"This report outlines twenty-fives spheres where technology can contribute to peacebuilding goals and describes five generations of thinking related to the evolution of technology’s impact on peacebuilding. Digital peacebuilding contributes to democratic deliberation, violence prevention, social c
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Realising the Potential of Social Media as a Tool for Building Peace
International Alert; British Council (2020), 20 pp.
"This paper suggests that social media has the potential to play a greater role in building peace in the following ways: Offering new perspectives in understanding conflict contexts and so informing how interventions are designed, including mapping actors and conversations, gathering data about conf
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