PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars

Bell covers an impressive breadth of empirical ground, and her personal experience of working on the PeaceFem app and the PA-X Peace Agreement Database provides important lessons on using digital innovation in academic research and peacebuilding. -- Fabian Hofmann , Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich. PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars, second edition looks at how digital transformation is being used to support peace and transition processes, at a moment when war is on the rise. This Open Access book combines an overview of transformative technologies and their key PeaceTech applications, with an account of how practices of production shape what PeaceTech is and can do. This new edition is updated with the latest innovations in mobile phone and app technology, geographic information systems, satellite technology, 'peace analytics' (data-analytics in the peacebuilding field), and Artificial Intelligence. It illustrates their key peacebuilding applications such as support to local peacebuilding projects, large-scale 'Conflict early warning systems', and peace mediation support, examining also the ethical and moral issues that arise. Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law, Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and Executive Director of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), based at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. A long-time expert and practitioner in the field of peace processes and constitution-making, she manages digital and PeaceTech innovation.