{"id":7224,"date":"2024-04-01T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2024-04-01T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:05:58","slug":"social-media-a-tool-for-peace-or-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7224","title":{"rendered":"Social media: A tool for peace or conflict?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b> Dr Simone Bunse<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation:<\/b> Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher:<\/b> SIPRI<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> August 20, 2021 \/ Stockholm, Sweden<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Analysis<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 2400<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/commentary\/topical-backgrounder\/2021\/social-media-tool-peace-or-conflict<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Social media, peace, conflict, peace building, development, violence, manipulation\\<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:<\/b><\/p>

This piece analyzes how social media has emerged as a space where both conflict and peace building are shaping narratives. The author suggests to utilize this tool for better purposes with enhanced speed and real time dissemination of information to challenge elements that fuel the fire or intensify the conflicts. It looks at how the use of social media in a conflict can cause damage to a region, for example in the case of Nigeria\u2019s Boko Haram. Peace builders identify and map conflict actors, tracing the links between them and their local support networks. Such fast-track response has allowed the parties to the Nigerian conflict to improve its understanding of how Boko Haram has used social media for its messaging for more than a decade now. This analysis stresses on the techniques of \u201cearly warning\u201d and \u201creal time reach out\u201d to basic causes followed by \u201ccounter messaging.\u201d The author argues that social media has been \u201cused to suppress internal dissent, meddle in democratic elections, incite armed violence, recruit members of terrorist organizations or contribute to crimes against humanity\u201d such as in the case of the Rohingya in Myanmar. The author recommends that policymakers should implement more \u201ceffective oversight and data management guidelines to stem systematic disinformation campaigns.\u201d It suggests that the social media platforms should look inwards and redesign their tools to \u201cprevent them from being employed toward harmful political ends and from favoring conflict over consensus.\u201d It also reflects on the role of civil society groups to demand from social media giants the information they collect about their users and \u201chow it is used and by whom.\u201d The analysis also focuses on collaboration between social media giants and human rights bodies and the need to start funds to compensate those wrongfully victimized on social media.<\/span><\/p>

By: Riyaz ul Khaliq, CIGA Non-Resident Research Associate<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Dr Simone Bunse Affiliation: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Organization\/Publisher: SIPRI Date\/Place: August 20, 2021 \/ Stockholm, Sweden Type of Literature: Analysis Word Count: 2400 Link: https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/commentary\/topical-backgrounder\/2021\/social-media-tool-peace-or-conflict Keywords: Social media, peace, conflict, peace building, development, violence, manipulation Brief: This piece analyzes how social media has emerged as a space where both conflict and 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