Lisa Schirch 25 Spheres of Digital Peacebuilding and PeaceTech 27 requires continued innovation to develop simple, easy-to-use interfaces between peacebuilding and technology. 4. Limitations of Digital Peacebuilding Many elements of peacebuilding are not well suited for digital formats. While innovations and complementary efforts are possible, currently there are few digital methods or examples of restorative justice, trauma healing, arts-based methods, security sector reform, demobilisation of armed groups, or other forms of peacebuilding. Digital data collection such as crowdsourcing mobile surveys and other data collection strategies have benefits and limitations.115 Recognising these limitations of digital peacebuilding is also important, so that analog forms of peacebuilding receive necessary attention. 5. Blending Digital and Analog Peacebuilding Given that conflict transformation processes require long term, sustained efforts to build peace, there may be new ways of blending digital and analog or physical peacebuilding approaches to structure the best of both worlds. More attention to and examples of this blending would be helpful. 6. Measuring and Evaluating Digital Peacebuilding Innovations in digital peacebuilding methods have a short track record. Investments of time and resources are necessary to compare, contrast, and identify the impacts of digital peacebuilding versus traditional modes of peacebuilding. 7. Ethics and Unintended Impacts Technology holds great potential, and also great danger. Good intentions do not always translate into good impacts. Digital peacebuilding will need to continue to guard against the potential negative impacts of new approaches using technology to ensure they are conflictsensitive and follow the principles of ‘Do No Harm.’ Digital peacebuilding has the potential to violate privacy, enable surveillance, or expose fragile peacebuilding processes. The JustPeace Lab’s publications on “Do No Harm and Tech” and Build Up’s “6 Best Practices” aim to address the ethical and potential unintended impacts in digital peacebuilding. 116 Peacebuilding organisations will need to engage in both the work of applying technology for more effective peacebuilding, and advocacy and projects that aim to limit technology’s negative impacts on democracy, social cohesion and peace. Suda Perera. “To Boldly Know: Knowledge, Peacekeeping and Remote Data Gathering in Conflict-Affected States.” International Peacekeeping. Vol. 24. No. 17, October 2017. pp. 803-822. 116 “6 Best Practices to Manage Challenges in Using Innovations in Peacebuilding.” Build Up. July 2020. 115