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Within a year, much of the world has adopted the norm of wearing masks to protect against the Covid-19 pandemic. Notwithstanding the political jostling that such face coverings have come to represent, it has become a social norm driven by circumstance.
Scholars have undertaken extensive work on the life cycle of norms to demonstrate how they cascade into society and eventually become internalised.
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But to what extent does technology have a normative function – the power to shape human behaviour and deliver real-world consequences? In the absence of robust safeguards and in states with fragile democracies, could Africa become a testing ground for tech-enabled social engineering? Shaping norms or beliefs, governing how we vote, who we love and stirring up existing ethnic or religious cleavages?
SADC response to Mozambique attacks must include military action - ISS expert
7 April 2021 11:56 AM
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Six heads of state will hold emergency talks in Mozambique on Thursday to plan the way forward after insurgents attacked Cabo Delgado.
The extraordinary SA Development Community (SADC) summit is expected to assess the situation in Mozambique and decide on possible interventions.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be in attendance along with five other Southern African leaders.
The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) says the meeting on Thursday needs to result in a concrete action plan.
SADC leadership must take charge of a response to the insurgency which includes military, economic, political, and humanitarian measures, says ISS senior researcher Liesl Louw-Vaudran.
Within a year, much of the world has adopted the norm of wearing masks to protect against the Covid-19 pandemic. Notwithstanding the political jostling that such face coverings have come to represent, it has become a social norm driven by circumstance.
Scholars have undertaken extensive work on the life cycle of norms to demonstrate how they cascade into society and eventually become internalised.
But to what extent does technology have a normative function – the power to shape human behaviour and deliver real-world consequences? In the absence of robust safeguards and in states with fragile democracies, could Africa become a testing ground for tech-enabled social engineering? Shaping norms or beliefs, governing how we vote, who we love and stirring up existing ethnic or religious cleavages?
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