Online Workshops

Emerging Technologies in Conflict and Peace: Hegemony, Governmentality and the Digital States of Exception

in collaboration with the ECPR’s Critical Peace & Conflict Standing Group

Winter 2025 – Spring 2026

In collaboration with the ECPR’s Critical Peace & Conflict Standing Group, Digital Transitions & Society (University of Nicosia) is organizing an online workshop series. The aim is to initiate a critically-oriented discussion that centers on the intricate relationship between emerging technologies and the dynamics of peace and conflict (broadly conceived). The workshops seek to deduce empirical, as well as theoretical insights through a comparative approach that examines diverse localities and dimensions of conflict.

Overarching Research Questions

  • How and to what extent does the application of novel technologies enable conflict, to the detriment of peace, justice and democracy?

  • How and to what extent can novel technologies be effectively employed in the service of peace, justice and democracy?

Workshop Schedule

All sessions begin at 15:00 Athens Time (GMT+2)

February 4, 2026

Camila Vergara and Peter Bloom
Commons Intelligence: AI, Democracy, and the Possibility of Trans-Human Solidarity

Nicos Trimikliniotis
Labour, Borders, AI and Struggles: Rethinking Mobile Commons

February 25, 2026

Letizia Conte
Beyond the EU’s Cyber-Fortress: Decolonial Perspectives on AI and Migration

Peters Unekwu Onyilo and Frank Ngwugwe
Surveillance Technologies and the Targeting of Dissent: A Global Expansion

March 18, 2026

Luna Rovolon
Neoliberal Crises and Ideological Discursive Productions by Italian Radical Right Organizations on Digital Platforms

Michaelangelo Anastasiou
The Hegemonic World Picture: Representation, Artificial Intelligence and the Democratic Potential

April 8, 2026

Leandros Savvides
Governing Mobility: Labour Demand and Border Securitization in Cyprus

Despina Psara and Clara Zinecker
From Genocide to Border Control: Technologies, Necropolitics, and the Governance of Movement in Cyprus

April 29, 2026

Anna Misiaouli
Online and On the Streets: Tracing Turkish Cypriot Activism through New Technologies and the Politics of Peace

Gabriele Leone
Innovativeness in the Digital Society: Biopolitical Governmentality, Minority Populations, and the Digitalization of Control

How to Register

To attend the workshop series, notify Dr. Michaelangelo Anastasiou at [email protected].

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* This project is funded by the ECPR’s Bonus Fund and is endorsed by the Critical Peace & Conflict Standing Group.