The Role of Digital Technologies in Environmental Peacebuilding: Challenges and Opportunities

Please join us for this Path to Ottawa event. The time and date are TBA. 

This is an informational and interactive session for a panel of interested scholars to share their viewpoints on the role of digital technology at the intersection of climate adaptation, mitigation, resource extraction, and community building. The first part features a roundtable of discussants focused on the opportunities and risks presented by digital technologies in shaping responses to climate change outcomes across global to local scales (particularly in conflict-sensitive areas). It will also include an ArcGIS Storymap illustrating emerging technologies across the geographies mentioned during this discussion – created in real time. The second part features a world cafe audience-inclusive workshop sharing solutions, key challenges, and areas for collaboration.

Guiding Questions for the Session: 1. How does the use and application of digital technologies influence mechanisms for
environmental and resource-related information access?
2. How does the inclusion of participatory processes for digital integration facilitate
equitable and sustainable outcomes (e.g., participatory infrastructure reconstruction,
economic development agendas, and environmental assessment and programming) to
tackle intertwined challenges associated with climate change and violent conflicts?
Conversely, how do they generate negative outcomes?
3. Does the integration of digital technologies help influence formal processes to integrate
local-level knowledge, practices, and cultural traditions within existing data
infrastructures?