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Alex Pierce + Brian Henderson CIGI PRESS ADVANCING POLICY IDEAS AND DEBATE COMING SPRING 2016 MINDING THE GAP The Internet ecosystem is held together by a surprisingly THE PREVAILING NARRATIVE ON AFRICA is that it is awash with violent conflict. Indeed, it intangible glue — trust. To meet its full potential, users does suffer from a multitude of conflicts — from border skirmishes to civil wars to terrorist Watching Look Who’s attacks. Conflicts in Africa are diverse and complex, but there have been a number of cases need to trust that the Internet works reliably and efficiently of successful conflict management and resolution. What accounts for the successes and when providing them with the information they are seeking, failures, and what can we learn from Africa’s experience? while also being secure, private and safe. When trust in ’ the Internet wanes, the network’s stock of “digital social Look Whos Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change takes on these questions, capital” falls, and users begin to alter their online bringing together more than 20 experts to examine the source of conflicts in Africa and behaviour. These often subtle changes in behaviour tend to assess African management capacity in the face of these conflicts. Through this book, they : collectively be highly maladaptive, hindering the economic, explore the viability of “African solutions for African problems,” the gaps in resources and TIME OF CHANGE A AFRICAN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN developmental and innovative potential of the globe-spanning capacity, the role of international players in African-led peacekeeping operations, and the Watching tensions that erupt when there are overlapping mandates among subregional, regional and network of networks. international institutions charged with bringing peace to troubled places. Look Who’s Watching: Why the World Is Losing Faith in the Why The World Is Losing Faith The book focuses on the role of mediation and peacekeeping in managing violence and Internet confirms in vivid detail that the trust placed by _in_the Internet political crises, looking at new ideas and institutions emerging in the African space, as users in the Internet is increasingly misplaced. Edward well as at the structural and institutional obstacles to developing a truly robust conflict Snowden’s revelations that the United States National management capability in Africa. In the end, the stakes are too high in terms of human Security Agency and other government agencies are spying on lives and regional stability to allow these obstacles to paralyze peace processes. This Internet users, the proliferation of cybercrime, the growing team of authors, approaching the issues from a wide range of perspectives, recognizes the enormity of the stakes and offer concrete recommendations on how to end conflict and lay African Conflict Management commodification of user data and regulatory changes — which the groundwork for building peace in Africa. threaten to fragment the system — are all rapidly eroding the in a Time of Change confidence users have in the Internet ecosystem. ABOUT THE EDITORS Based on a combination of illustrative anecdotal evidence and Look Who’s Watching PAMELA AALL is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), analysis of new data, clearly demonstrates in the Global Security & Politics Program, leading the African Regional Conflict Management why trust matters, how it is being eroded and how, with project. She is also a senior adviser for conflict prevention and management at the United care and deliberate policy action, the essential glue of the States Institute of Peace (USIP), where she was founding provost of USIP’s Academy for Internet can be restored. International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. She is on the advisory council of the European Institute of Peace, and serves on the boards of Women In International Security and FEN OSLER HAMPSON is a distinguished fellow and the director the International Peace and Security Institute. of the Global Security & Politics Program at CIGI. He is also Hampson //Jardine CHESTER A. CROCKER is a distinguished fellow at CIGI. He is the James R. Schlesinger co-director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, a Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign joint project with CIGI and Chatham House. He is chancellor’s Service, and serves on the board of its Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. A former assistant professor at Carleton University and a former Jennings secretary of state for African affairs (1981–1989), he served as chairman of the board of the Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. USIP (1992–2004) and is a founding member of the Global Leadership Foundation. With Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, he has edited and authored a number of books on conflict ERIC JARDINE joined CIGI as a research fellow in May 2014 in management and mediation. the Global Security & Politics Program. He contributes to Published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. CIGI’s work on Internet governance, including the CIGI–Chatham House-sponsored Global Commission on Internet Governance. His current research focuses on cyber security, cyber Aall terrorism, cybercrime and cyber protest. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Norman Paterson School of | Crocker International Affairs at Carleton University. Published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. ISBN 978-1-928096-15-3 ISBN 978-1-928096-21-4 Pamela Aall and Chester A. Crocker, Editors www.cigionline.org 9 781928 096214 Foreword by the Right Honourable Joe Clark www.cigionline.org REPLACE9781928096153 Fen Osler Hampson_and_Eric Jardine Minding the Gap Global Financial Governance Confronts Look Who’s Watching Edited by Pamela Aall and the Rising Powers Fen Osler Hampson and Eric Jardine Chester A. Crocker Edited by C. 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