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.
Six UNESCO animation videos on peace-related themes such as solidarity, environmental conservation, non-violence, and co-operation, based on storyboards conceived by students from Costa Rica, Indonesi...
Established in 1990 as a focal point for youth culture in Derry, bringing popular music, film, video, animation, and interactive multimedia together, facilitating creative projects focused on the Nort...
Aims to foster reconciliation in post-war countries in the former Yugoslavia by re-establishing friendships ruptured by conflict through video message exchanges, expanding to TV broadcasts, a mobile c...
Using video and technology to fight for human rights, empowering people to use video to expose and report on human rights abuses worldwide, including work with the Sierra Leone Truth Commission.
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