INFORMATION WARS AND PEACE

Abstract

Information wars are on the agenda more and more every day. Although information wars often
refer to cyber attacks, the use of information as a weapon has a wider scope. Information that will
polarize societies of provoke conflicts also has the role of a weapon of war. Because, wars need
social support and the way to do this is to provide reasons to legitimize wars. Therefore, against the
use of information as a war tool, a precaution should be taken for information that will feed the war
for a lasting peace. Due to the power that social media has gained today, the necessity of measures
to be taken in this regard has becaome much more important. However, due to the fact that
information is a tool with its own characteristics, the measures to be taken in this regard cannot be
considered as a disarmament problem. Contemporary approaches, emphasizing that peace in general cannot be merely a question of
disarmament, offer a remerkable perspective on how peace is possible. The importance of the
demand for peace and the social response to war cannot be denied, especially in democratic
societies. In this article, it will be tried to show what kind of attitude can be taken in the face of
information wars by presenting some basic approaches to how eternal peace is possible. At the end
of the article, the importance of individuals having an epistemic education against misleading and
manipulative information will be emphasized due to the polarizing effects of information on
societies.