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Roles of media in
peacebuilding &
conflict
generation
PEAC501, NCPACS
Sanjana Hattotuwa
What I study
2,400+ accounts
on Facebook,
daily
200,000 tweets a
week on Sri
Lanka
Roles of media in peacebuilding & conflict generation
Two realities
“You will never be
completely at home
again, because part of
your heart always will be
elsewhere. That is the
price you pay for the
richness of loving and
knowing people in more
than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney
Sri Lanka and
Global South
New Zealand
and OECD
Simultaneous
potential
A long gestation
Roles of media in peacebuilding & conflict generation
Roles of media in peacebuilding & conflict generation
public pulse over
social media
signatures, signals and signs
systems-level study
volume, vector,
velocity
scale, scope and
speed
weaponising
affordances
democratic or
damoclean
Roles of media in peacebuilding & conflict generation
a video every
second
uploaded to
youtube
cross-pollination
super-spreaders
Roles of media in peacebuilding & conflict generation
Roles of media in peacebuilding & conflict generation
adhesion
cohesion
repulsion
context
country
community
complex media
ecologies
divisions between
mainstream, traditional &
social media lost
Everything you
can imagine is
real.
– Pablo Picasso
artificial
intelligence
peace &
conflict
by Karen Hao, Technology Review
Roles of media in peacebuilding & conflict generation
social
cohesion
human rights
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thank you

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