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Information and communication technologies in peacebuilding: Implications, opportunities and challenges (2015)
Journal Article
Tellidis, I., & Kappler, S. (2016). Information and communication technologies in peacebuilding: Implications, opportunities and challenges. Cooperation and Conflict, 51(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836715603752

Despite the volume of research exploring the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for destructive purposes (terrorism, crime, war propaganda) on the one hand, and development (ICT4D) on the other hand, very little has been said ab... Read More about Information and communication technologies in peacebuilding: Implications, opportunities and challenges.

The ‘Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority Versus the ‘Local’ (2015)
Journal Article
Richmond, O., Kappler, S., & Björkdahl, A. (2015). The ‘Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority Versus the ‘Local’. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 44(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829815594871

This article highlights the semantic and socio-political meaning of the ‘field’ as it is used in both academic research and policy practices: as a geographic and material space related to forms of intervention in International Relations (IR), and not... Read More about The ‘Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority Versus the ‘Local’.

The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity (2015)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2015). The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity. Third World Quarterly, 36(5), 875-889. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1025740

This article challenges the notion of the ‘local’ as a static identity or set position and argues for a processual understanding of localisation, in which constant processes of delocalisation and (re-)localisation serve as tools by which peacebuildin... Read More about The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity.