The Everyday Security of Living with Conflict

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09580v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:18:21 GMT
• Title: The Everyday Security of Living with Conflict
• Authors: Jessica McClearn, Reem Talhouk, Rikke Bjerg Jensen,
• Abstract summary: We offer a different approach to engaging with and understanding security in such contexts.<n>We do so through three vignettes from our field research in Colombia, Lebanon and Sweden.<n>We conclude by setting out a call to action for security researchers and practitioners to consider such lived experiences in the design of security technology.
• Score: 11.606544364381405
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: When `cyber' is used as a prefix, attention is typically drawn to the technological and spectacular aspects of war and conflict -- and, by extension, security. We offer a different approach to engaging with and understanding security in such contexts, by foregrounding the everyday -- mundane -- experiences of security within communities living with and fleeing from war. We do so through three vignettes from our field research in Colombia, Lebanon and Sweden, respectively, and by highlighting the significance of ethnography for security research with communities living in regions afflicted by war. We conclude by setting out a call to action for security researchers and practitioners to consider such lived experiences in the design of security technology that aims to cater to the needs of communities in `global conflict and disaster regions'.

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