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- Peacebuilding Paradigms
- Peacebuilding Paradigms
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction Bridging the Conceptual and Theoretical Divides on Peace and Peacebuilding
- Part I The Realist Paradigm
- Part II The Liberal Paradigm
- Part III The Constructivist Paradigm
- Part IV The Cosmopolitan Paradigm
- Part V The Critical Theory Paradigm
- 11 Critical Approaches to Peacebuilding
- 12 A New Paradigm
- 13 From Scylla to Charybdis?
- Part VI The Locality Paradigm
- Part VII The Policy Paradigm
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - From Scylla to Charybdis?
The Risks and Opportunities of Digital Peacebuilding
from Part V - The Critical Theory Paradigm
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2020
- Peacebuilding Paradigms
- Peacebuilding Paradigms
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction Bridging the Conceptual and Theoretical Divides on Peace and Peacebuilding
- Part I The Realist Paradigm
- Part II The Liberal Paradigm
- Part III The Constructivist Paradigm
- Part IV The Cosmopolitan Paradigm
- Part V The Critical Theory Paradigm
- 11 Critical Approaches to Peacebuilding
- 12 A New Paradigm
- 13 From Scylla to Charybdis?
- Part VI The Locality Paradigm
- Part VII The Policy Paradigm
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
With digital peacebuilding, its epistemology and methodology are moving into new terrains before the problems of the older analogue order have been settled. Digital peacebuilding is emerging to respond to the conflict risks of the new digital international. It is a flimsy development at that, while the old order is still conflict prone, even if it is more settled within the liberal international architecture than it once was. The anticipation and excitement the Arab Spring generated (particularly in the case of Egypt) about bottom-up processes of democratization, which were in turn aided and facilitated by digital technologies, dissipated quickly as the old international order machinated the undermining of these dynamics and instead favored the establishment of a dictatorship. The liberal system exihibits an inability to keep up with the digital change that is occurring at the local level. The local’s attempt to identify ways to use said technologies in order to (re)claim agency in the way that peace, security, and quotidianity are shaped and established is met with significant resistance by the old analogue, hierarchical, geopolitical, and territorial international order.
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- Peacebuilding ParadigmsThe Impact of Theoretical Diversity on Implementing Sustainable Peace, pp. 223 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020