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.
The first interactive teaching tool in the field of non-violent conflict. A strategy game built on nonviolent strategies and tactics used successfully in conflicts around the world, developed by the I...
An educational computer game published by the UN World Food Programme where players take on missions to distribute food in a famine-affected country and learn about hunger in the real world.
An emerging genre of videogames based on news events, believing games can be tools for understanding our world. Features games like '12th September' and 'Madrid' exploring dilemmas of the so-called Wa...
A hybrid new media product combining interactive documentary with decision-based simulation and collaborative learning tools. Version 1.0 places the user in the shoes of a UN Commander during the Rwan...
Designs, builds, and distributes electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism. Games influence players to take action through gameplay, simulating experiences and serving as rhetorical t...
An educational game by the Nobel Prize organisation helping people understand the Geneva Conventions and the rules of war, teaching about the Red Cross's role in ensuring rules are followed during con...
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