Digital Disruption and Rethinking the ‘Script’ of Peace Mediation

Summary This article focuses on the quest for digitalisation in peace mediation and to extent which digital disruption is reshaping its practices. While wider field of diplomacy has seen dramatic changes practices, a ‘latecomer’. The explores constitutive effects specific norms practices identifies opportunities as well restraining even counterproductive digitalisation. Digital technologies, tools social media platforms are mapped assess their roles impact key critically analyse mediation. Moreover, content analysis international strategic policy documents central frameworks relevant peacebuilding operations conducted, shows that taken place gradually cautiously. Since there few theoretical empirical studies mediation, concludes by suggesting three directions be future research.