The Impact of Modern Technologies on Peace, Security and Development in Africa

Osimen Goddy Uwa, Adeyefa Christianah Ronke

Abstract


Since the independence processes in the African continent, armed conflicts, peace, security and development has remain contesting issues that have raised concern and attention both at the national and international level. In recent years, most of these issues have heightened the tempo which has given rise to their strong deliberation in the region of Africa. Although, efforts are been made in different quarters in the continent particularly, the African Union to deal with these teething issues still, the growing pace and role of technologies currently in the world has not been appropriately and adequately explored to respond to these concerns in Africa. However, this paper does not aim to give a comprehensive impression of the landscape of new technologies, but focuses on the opportunities and challenges these technologies present to the African continent and how best these technologies could be anchored in the African Union agenda to address the challenges before it. The paper further offers concrete recommendations on the best practices of these new technologies in key areas that would propel Africa in the attainment of sustainable peace, security and development in the region.


Keywords


Peace; Security; Development; Technologies; Africa

Full Text:

PDF

References


ACCORDS (2021). Implications of emerging technologies on peace and security in Africa; Conflict & resilience monitor 2021/22. https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/implications-of-emerging-technologies-on-peace-and-security-in-africa

Baldé, C. P., Wang, F., Kuehr, R., & Huisman, J. (2014). The global e-waste monitors 2014. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. Available at https://i.unu.edu/media/unu.edu/news/52624/UNU-1stGlobal-E-Waste-Monitor-2014-small.pdf

Baytiyeh, H. (2019). Social media’s role in peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 31(1), 74-82.

Chutel, L. (2018). Zimbabwe introducing a mass facial recognition project with Chinese AI Company CloudWalk. Quartz Africa. Available at: <https://qz.com/africa/1287675/china-is-exporting-facial-recognition-to-africa-ensuring-ai-dominance-through-diversity> [Accessed 23 January 2021].

Cullen, R. (2002). Addressing the digital divide. Online Information Review, 25(5), 311-320. Available: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/news/dolnicar.pdf Accessed: May 20th 2010.

Garcia, D. (2018, June 1). Lethal artificial intelligence and change: The future of international peace and security. International Studies Review, 20(2), 334-41. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viy029.

Hawkins, A. (2018). Beijing’s big brother tech needs African faces. Foreign Policy. Available at: <https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/24/beijings-big-brother-tech-needs-african-faces

Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (2014). A world that counts: Mobilizing the data revolution for sustainable development, United Nations, November, p.2. Available at www.undatarevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/A-World-That-Counts.pdf .

International Telecommunication Union (2012). Impact of broadband on the economy, p. 4.

Inversini, R. (2020). Cyber peace: And how it can be achieved. The Ethics of Cybersecurity (pp. 259-276).

James, G. (2012). Power, Pollution and the Internet,” New York Times, available at www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html .

Jeffrey D. S. (2015). The Age of Sustainable Development (p.82). New York: Columbia University Press.

Knight, T. (2021). Social media disinformation campaign targets ugandan presidential election. Daily Maverick, 12 January. Available at: <https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-12-social-media-disinformation-campaign-targets-ugandan-presidential-election> [Accessed 23 January 2021].

Larauri, H. P., & Meier, P. (2015). Peacekeepers in the sky: The use of unmanned unarmed aerial vehicles for peacekeeping. Geneva: ICT4Peace Foundation.

Pre-Tana Regional Multi-Stakeholders’ Dialogue (2021). Emerging technologies and their impact on peace and security in Africa: 14 September Outcomes Report.

Rao, S. S, (2003). Information systems in India rural communities. Journal of Computer Information Systems, pp. 44, 48 -56.

Rotolo, D., Hicks, D., & Martin, B. (2015). What is an Emerging Technology?. Research Policy, 1 December, 44(10), pp.1827-43. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001031>

Saleh, I. (n.d). The impact of ICT on peace, security & governance in Africa. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/393239/The_impact_of_ICT_on_Peace_Security_and_Governance_in_Africa.

Tellidis, I. (2020). Technology and peace. In O. Richmond and G. Visoka (Eds.), The Palgrave encyclopaedia of peace and conflict studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).

The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) (2022). Emerging technologies and new media: Impact on democratic governance, peace and security in Africa. Insights on the PSC 4th, August: https://amaniafrica-et.org/emerging-technologies-and-new-media-impact-on-democratic-governance-peace-and-security-in-africa

The Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM) (2017). The impact of new technologies on peace, security, and development. International Peace Institute, New York.

Wilson, T., & Murgia, M. (2019). Uganda confirms use of Huawei facial recognition cameras. The Financial Times, 20 August. Available at: <https://www.ft.com/content/e20580de-c35f-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/12965

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2023 Author(s)

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Reminder

  • How to do online submission to another Journal?
  • If you have already registered in Journal A, then how can you submit another article to Journal B? It takes two steps to make it happen:

1. Register yourself in Journal B as an Author

  • Find the journal you want to submit to in CATEGORIES, click on “VIEW JOURNAL”, “Online Submissions”, “GO TO LOGIN” and “Edit My Profile”. Check “Author” on the “Edit Profile” page, then “Save”.

2. Submission

Online Submission: http://cscanada.org/index.php/css/submission/wizard

  • Go to “User Home”, and click on “Author” under the name of Journal B. You may start a New Submission by clicking on “CLICK HERE”.
  • We only use four mailboxes as follows to deal with issues about paper acceptance, payment and submission of electronic versions of our journals to databases: caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net; ccc@cscanada.net; ccc@cscanada.org

 Articles published in Canadian Social Science are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

 

Canadian Social Science Editorial Office

Address: 1020 Bouvier Street, Suite 400, Quebec City, Quebec, G2K 0K9, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net; Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mail:caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net

Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture