Technology and Vulnerability in Early Warning: Ethical Use of IT in Dangerous Places

Bock, Joseph G.

doi:10.1080/02681102.2014.903894

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“…They constitute a sea change in conflict early warning and response. Involving local organizations and people in generating events data and in response brings a host of ethical issues that need to be articulated and explored (Bock, 2014). The sensitivity of the crowdsourced data-whether in its original or aggregated form-can put the lives of people at risk of retribution by militant groups.…”

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Firmer Footing for a Policy of Early Intervention: Conflict Early Warning and Early Response Comes of Age

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2014

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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Initial versions of conflict early warning and early response were designed primarily for use by foreign policy experts to support early responses to avert chaos in governance, factional bloodshed, and associated humanitarian crises. More recently, there has been a shift of emphasis to early warning and early response at a local level due, in part, to emerging technologies-especially cell phones and social media, involving the "net-roots." This use of Information and Communication Technologies for Violence Prevention (ICT4VP) is creating a fusion of outsider-top-level and insider-local-level approaches. Although these new systems can be risky, there is evidence that such combinations can be successful, highlighting the importance of policies designed to support local actors for early response in tandem with initiatives by leaders at mid and top levels.Within foreign policy circles, there is renewed interest in conflict early warning, an approach that supports early intervention before violence erupts to avert massive human suffering, chaos in governance, displacement of large populations, and acute economic malaise. Brante, De Franco, Meyer, and Otto (2011) point out three indications of a resurgence of emphasis on the approach by outsiders at top levels: (a) the stress on improving capacity for prevention at the United Nations (UN) resulting

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Section: Mid-levelmentioning

confidence: 99%