Digital Peacebuilding?: The Socio-Technicality of Transforming Armed Conflict

Digital Peacebuilding?: The Socio-Technicality of Transforming Armed Conflict explores how we can make sense of the increasing use of digital technology in peacebuilding.It studies digital peacebuilding at different stages of conflict, including conflict prevention, conflict mitigation, peace mediation, and sustainable transitions from armed conflict.Moving beyond a focus on individual tools, the book encourages a 'post-digital' posture that enables a reflexive position vis-à-vis the appeal of digital innovation.Instead, it suggests exploring how technologies are always socially embedded, and how the socio-technicality of digital peacebuilding conditions prospects of conflict transformation.To this end, the book encourages a critical-reflexive engagement with how claims about technology and society shape digital peacebuilding.It also explores how these dynamics and outcomes differ globally depending on variations in the degree of digitalization of the conflict context, and levels of po