To what extent does the advancement of digital media impact contemporary attempts of conflict resolution?

在过去的二十年里，现代形式的数字媒体的不断发展影响了当代对政治和社会的理解。对最近事件的粗略审查强调了数字媒体在政治领域的影响规模。阿拉伯之春示威游行、外国干涉2016年美国总统大选以及新闻国际电话窃听丑闻都证明了，由于其广泛的使用和社会政治后果，数字媒体可以有效地成为故事。鉴于数字媒体对我们互动的无处不在和变革性影响，可以认为，它在解决冲突和建设和平领域的影响已经得到探讨。随着各方，包括国际调解人、国家行为者和民间社会之间对话的加强，被认为是实现性别问题解决的一个实际步骤（威尔金森，2000年; Tocci，2011年，2013年; Bercovitch等人，2016年），探索数字媒体在这种对话中的作用似乎特别相关。然而，数字媒体和冲突解决之间的可能联系在学术文献中基本上是缺失的。尽管政治学家，包括娜塔莉·托奇和雅各布·伯科维奇，明确主张积极沟通是成功的调解策略的关键，但这种互动的方法在很大程度上尚未探索。人们的注意力主要集中在调解人与国内各方积极接触的总体优势和局限性上（Orjuela，2003; Fischer，2011; Nilsson，2012; Paffenholz，2014）。人们对数字媒体在这种参与中的作用知之甚少。

During the past two decades, the continuous development of modern forms of digital media haveaffected the contemporary understanding of politics and society. A cursory examination of recentevents emphasizes the scale of the impact which digital media has had in the political sphere. TheArab Spring demonstrations, foreign interference in the 2016 U.S presidential election, and the NewsInternational phone-hacking scandal are examples which demonstrate how, owing to its wideranginguse and socio-political consequences, digital media can effectively become the story.Given the ubiquity and transformative effect of digital media on our interactions, it could beassumed that its impact within the fields of conflict resolution and peacebuilding has been explored.As the enhancement of dialogue between parties, including international mediators, state actorsand civil society, is cited as a practical step towards engendering resolution (Wilkinson, 2000; Tocci,2011, 2013; Bercovitch et al., 2016), exploration of digital media's role in such dialogue appearsparticularly relevant. However, the possible link between digital media and conflict resolution islargely absent in academic literature. Although political scientists, including Nathalie Tocci and JacobBercovitch, have explicitly advocated active communication as essential for successful mediationstrategies, the methods of such interaction have largely been unexplored. Attention has mostly beendevoted to the overall strengths and limitations of active engagement between mediators anddomestic parties (Orjuela, 2003; Fischer, 2011; Nilsson, 2012; Paffenholz, 2014). There is littleunderstanding of the role of digital media in such engagement.