We spend increasing amounts of our time using digital tools, navigating virtual worlds and inhabiting cyber space. Policy-makers and researchers are alert to the threats posed by cyberwarfare; as we discussed in our Peace Debates, social media is frequently harnessed to drive both virtual and real conflict; and AI-enabled technologies are revolutionising conventional military tactics (among many other developments). This makes it all the more urgent to explore the ways in which the cyber world is changing how we visualise peace and approach peacebuilding.
Several Visualising Peace students have taken on this challenge, exploring the challenges and opportunities for peacebuilding presented by digital communications, hacktivism and AI. You can sample their work below:
- https://peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/05/27/is-hacktivism-peaceful/
- https://peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/05/25/cyber-peace-through-other-means-kathryn-brimblecome-fox/
- https://vpp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/03/29/ai-for-peacebuilding/
- https://vpp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/04/10/navigating-ai-in-peacebuilding-conflict-resolution-and-restorative-justice/
- https://peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/05/14/pockets-of-peace-in-ukraine-spring-2022-a-reflection/
- https://peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/05/13/pockets-of-peace-in-ukraine-spring-2022-care-for-animals/
- https://peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/05/11/pockets-of-peace-in-ukraine-spring-2022-care-through-music/
- https://peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/05/11/pockets-of-peace-in-ukraine-spring-2022-care-for-nature/
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CzeVeRiIwdw/?img_index=1 – how to make your social media a place for peace
- https://vpp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/03/13/chatty-monday-for-peace/
- https://vpp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/13/collaborative-debate/
