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Futuring Peace: the Politics of Water Conflict in a Post-truth Age

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ical, geo-political and normative change. Climate change and advances in techno-science are intricately linked in the UN’s Futuring Peace initiative, which explores the possibility of using big data, machine learning and social media to inform climate conflict prevention activities . The digital expansion of public space has also facilitated post-truth politics, which denotes the use of digital technologies by rising illiberal authoritarian and populist powers to question or fabricate scientific ‘facts’ about global issues, including both climate change and military conflict . Climate conflict narratives have placed peacebuilding practice between the objective truth claims of ‘big data’ and the ontological condition of ambiguity – or multitude of ‘truths’ regarding climate-conflict risk. This project will focus on how the inter-related issues of climate change, technology, rising illiberal global powers and post-truth politics cohere around water resources to influence conflict dynamics and the norms that underpin international peace and security intervention. It will involve a quali

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TERMINATED

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EU

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222727.68

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