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.
Established by NEPAD to promote the application of science and technology for economic growth and poverty reduction across Africa.
An international non-profit promoting the effective use of ICT in the developing world to reduce poverty and improve lives, tackling obstacles to effective ICT use and working with initiatives focused...
Sierra Leone Red Cross project addressing the aftermath of war-related violence. Animators facilitate communities to rebuild, farm, revitalise cultural practices, begin reconciliation, and plan for co...
HP and partners tackling Belfast's digital divide by opening Digital Community Centres in disadvantaged areas affected by sectarian strife, providing tools for learning and competing in the digital ec...
UN initiative providing a platform for open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on the role of ICT in development, linking the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society with th...
The International Development Research Centre has been advancing ICT as a key means to foster development and alleviate poverty, with established programs like Acacia in Africa, Pan Asia Networking, a...
Aims to support information dissemination and networking among the peacebuilding community, using ICT pro-actively to strengthen linkages with national, regional, and international stakeholders and th...
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