Building Peace & Reconciliation Through Technology
PeaceTech searches for the direct links between peacebuilding and technology. Since 2007, this project has mapped the growing landscape of technology initiatives that promote peace, reconciliation, and social cohesion across the world.
The relationship between peacebuilding, reconciliation, and technology is a developing area with enormous scope. Technology can provide a vehicle for connection and communication across political divides and geographical spaces. It can offer safe forums for engagement, resources for education, and tools for documenting human rights.
From mobile phone networks preventing violence in Northern Ireland, to video testimony projects in the Balkans, to serious games teaching conflict resolution — PeaceTech encompasses a diverse and growing ecosystem of innovation for social good.
This project was originally compiled by Professor Brandon Hamber through the Digital Diversity Project and has evolved into a living repository, continuously updated with new initiatives from around the world.
Explore projects that harness technology for peacebuilding, reconciliation, and social cohesion across the globe.
A cross-border initiative developed by Citizens Advice (Northern Ireland) and Comhairle, responding to complex cross-border queries on rights and entitlements in a post-conflict context, promoting pea...
An international interactive human rights forum through which students engage as global citizens, serving as a decentralised network for grassroots human rights organisations to connect, share informa...
Designs and builds information management solutions and conducts statistical analysis on behalf of human rights projects, making scientifically defensible arguments based on rigorous evidence.
A joint project making social justice resources and human rights information available in local languages across the Middle East and Central Asia through community-based libraries and an online e-libr...
Explores Internet filtering and surveillance practices by governments worldwide, examining how these erode civil liberties, privacy, and global communications, led by research from multiple universiti...
Free, open-source software allowing human rights defenders to document incidents of abuse, upload bulletins, and store them on redundant servers worldwide, safeguarding and disseminating documentation...
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