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Notes on contributor
Roger Mac Ginty is Professor of Peace and Conflict at the University of Manchester. He edits the journal Peacebuilding (with Oliver Richmond) and directs the Everyday Peace Indicators project (with Pamina Firchow). His research is on the interface between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peace.
Notes
1 Interview with humanitarian information systems specialist, UN Headquarters, 23 May 2016. This view was reinforced by interview with DPKO official 1, 24 May 2016.
2 Butler, Frames of War; Cobb, Speaking of Violence; Mac Ginty and Firchow, “Top-down and Bottom-up.”
3 Box, “Running Government.”
4 Mac Ginty, “Routine Peace.”
5 On battlefield casualty maps in WWI, for example, see Hughes-Wilson, A History, 224–7.
6 Garman, “New Technologies,” Read, Taithe, and Mac Ginty, “Data hubris?”; Tellidis and Kappler, “Information.”
7 Burns, “Rethinking Big Data.”
8 Interview with DPKO official 2, 25 May 2016. See also the HDX initiative.
9 Duffield, “Challenging Environments.”
10 Bott and Young, “The Role of Crowdsourcing”; Dillon, “Using Mobile Phones.”
11 Interview with DPKO official 2, 25 May 2016.
12 Chandler, “A World”; Collinson and Duffield, Paradoxes of Presence; Duffield, Disaster-Resilience.
13 Coole and Frost, “Introducing.”
14 Smirl, Spaces of Aid.
15 Interview with DPKO official 1, 24 May 2016.
16 Ibid.
17 Visoka, “Peace is.”
18 United Nations, “Uniting Our Strengths.”
19 United Nations, “Performance Peacekeeping.”
20 Interview with humanitarian information systems specialist, UN Headquarters, 23 May 2016.
21 Interview with DPKO official 1, 24 May 2016.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Chambers, Whose Reality. Henry, Higate, and Sanghera, “Positionality and Power.”
26 Interview with DPKO official 1, 24 May 2016.
27 Ibid.