2 Policy Brief No. 93 Toda Peace Institute Some peacebuilding organisations have been ramping up their explicit work using technology and understanding how technology impacts democracy and conflict dynamics. Peacebuilding organisations like Build Up, PeaceTech Lab, ICT4Peace, and Search for Common Ground have focused on ‘peacetech’ and ‘digital peacebuilding’ since the early 2010s. In 2018, the Toda Peace Institute launched a Social Media, Technology, and Peacebuilding research track. In 2019, the Washington DC-based Alliance for Peacebuilding convened a regular working group on technology and peacebuilding including dozens of the network’s member organisations. Mercy Corps and Peace Direct also began convening meetings on the topic. Peacebuilding organisations are employing technology to achieve a wide range of peacebuilding goals, and they have been harnessing peacebuilding skills and processes to address challenges amplified by new technologies. In 2020, Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute offered the first graduate course in “Digital Peacebuilding and Peacetech” and Conducive Space for Peace, Humanity United, and PeaceDirect launched an online “Digital Peacebuilding 101” training platform. This report emerges out of a literature review and involvement in ongoing consultations within the peacebuilding community in meetings convened by Build Up, the Toda Peace Institute, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, PeaceTech Lab, Search for Common Ground, Mercy Corps, and Peace Direct. PeaceTech and Digital Peacebuilding Defined Peacetech is technology that contributes to peacebuilding. Digital peacebuilding is the broader nexus between the field of peacebuilding and digital technologies. This nexus includes three interfaces. First, most peacebuilding efforts use “normal” technologies such as email, websites, word processing, databases, and Skype or Zoom for communication and basic computation. Second, specific types of technology can be developed with the explicit goal of analysing conflict, protecting civilians, facilitating dialogue, or other goals related to peacebuilding. Third, the field of peacebuilding can respond to new threats brought by technology, including cyber warfare tactics such as disinformation aimed at undermining democracy or hate speech on social media leading to greater polarisation. Peacebuilding includes a wide range of efforts by diverse actors in government and civil society at the community, national, and international levels. Peacebuilding can work proactively to design societies that are both just and peaceful, and reactively to address both the immediate impacts and root causes of conflict before, during, and after violent conflict occurs. Peacebuilding ultimately supports human security—where people have freedom from fear, freedom from want, and freedom from humiliation. Peacebuilding skills and processes centre on multi-stakeholder, intergroup dialogue, negotiation, and mediation. Peacebuilding processes build social cohesion by improving intergroup understanding, protecting human rights norms, and improving governance and collective problem solving to address inequalities. The field of peacebuilding began as an interdisciplinary subfield of political science, communication, psychology, economics, and sociology devoted to understanding polarisation and designing processes to build social