Information society and domestic conflicts

This article concentrates on the relationship between the level of development of information society and the ability to resolve conflicts. Greater connectedness and freely available access to information and communication for the potential participants in a conflict serves to allow them to drastically reduce societal uncertainty which the literature suggests is one of the fundamental preconditions to conflict. My main hypothesis therefore is that the development of information-communication technology leads to the reduction of political violence inside a particular country. Furthermore, as the information society develops in any one or both countries in a diad, the likelihood of international conflict declines as well.