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Any peace process is an exercise in the negotiation of big data. From centuries old communal hagiography to the reams of official texts, media coverage and social media updates, peace negotiations generate data. Peacebuilding and peacekeeping today are informed by, often respond and contribute to big data. This is no easy task. As recently as a few years ago, before the term big data embraced the virtual on the web, what informed peace process design and implementation was in the physical domain – from contested borders and resources to background information in the form of text. The move from analogue, face-to-face negotiations to online, asynchronous, web-mediated negotiations – which can still include real world meetings – has profound implications for how peace is strengthened in fragile democracies.

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AbstractThis paper challenges the current paradigms used for development of on‐line dispute resolution (ODR) and its application to regions in Asia that lack telecommunications infrastructure. The next generation of on‐line dispute resolution systems will need to reflect both the diversity of cultures and the unique sociopolitical structures of the Global South and address issues related to peace building and conflict transformation using technologies already in use in the region, such as mobile telephony and community Internet radio.