Geneva Centre for Security Policy
GCSP Policy Paper 2012/7
The Alchemy of Revolution:
The Role of Social Networks and New Media
in the Arab Spring
by Reda Benkirane (PDF)
“if 2011 was a year of Arab collective therapy whereby ICTs’ role facilitated the liberation process, then 2012 is the year of psychological depression and political regression/repression due to the control made possible by the same ICTs”
“Technology is a pharmakon; a remedy that can heal and a poison that can kill”