ABSTRACT

This exploratory and somewhat experimental chapter draws on the inferences of several tentative areas of theory that might contribute more to our thinking about peace: the impact of the Anthropocene on how we understand the international system and peace therein: new-materialism; actor network theory and the growing interest in thinking about IR beyond crude structure-agency notions; questions of mobility; and new forms of technology. It discusses what peace might mean if agency is fluid and structures indeterminate, what a mobile form of political agency means for peace, and whether digital peacebuilding engages with the political questions peace normally raises in the context of an unlikely pax technica, 1 built on

…an experimental tool in a terrestrial struggle to covert history and politics in to information and data. 2