Dr Suda Perera on Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Affected States | SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 20/06/2019

Dr Suda Perera, Senior Teaching Fellow in Conflict and Migration at SOAS, discusses her recent article: ‘To Boldly Know: Knowledge, Peacekeeping and Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Affected States’.

Dr Perera’s article covers the growth of remote technologies as a tool for data gathering in conflict affected areas. Modern technologies, such as crowdsourcing and drones, provide information to humanitarian actors occupying spaces outside of active conflict. Although such technologies are increasingly popular, Dr Perera discusses how their benefit can be overestimated and how they can, at times, bring about harmful practices. 

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