Peace and the pluriverse: interrogating (post-)digital peacebuilding

The Introduction to the Special Issue explores how research on (post)-digital peacebuilding can contribute to advancing approaches that are neither driven by the sense of an inevitable digital revolution, nor curtailed by the limits of the technically feasible. Instead of providing intellectual support for the idea that a singular, digitalised future is inevitable, the collection of articles in this Special Issue engages with the pluriversal possibilities of past, present, and future peacebuilding that increasingly involve the digital. The idea of the pluriverse, as proposed in the Zapatista declaration of a ‘world in which many worlds fit’, is to challenge Eurocentric Western universalist rationality by recognising that multiple ways of knowing, being, and doing exist. We translate these three dimensions to digital peacebuilding and discuss the most critical challenges that emerge when they are put to use in the (re)search of the pluriverse of digital peacebuilding approaches.