Build Peace Salon: A Roundtable on Uses of ICTs for EU Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding

Abstract

The main goal of the Community of Practice Event on ICTs was to introduce the cross-cutting theme of information and communication technologies and how they meld with peacebuilding practice to create the complex and growing field of peacetech, and to expose the potential capability ICTs provide for the EU in peacebuilding processes, given a well understood policy for design and deployment. The event began with a global review of peacetech, followed by a panel focusing on peacetech intersections with EU policy. There was an open discussion about centering around two main questions: what should be the EU’s capabilities in peacetech, and what policies or initiatives are required to support these capabilities in Brussels and in the field