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...
Established by NEPAD to promote the application of science and technology for economic growth and poverty reduction across Africa.
A group of British Muslims and British Jews committed to developing positive contacts between communities as a good practice model. They host a database of over 1,000 names of British Muslims and Jews...
A joint Israeli-Palestinian radio station bringing the experience of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva and the Palestinian organization Biladi to reach audiences previously not exposed ...
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...
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 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...
The most extensive online resource on the Northern Ireland conflict, containing information and source material on 'the Troubles' and politics from 1968 to the present, functioning as a comprehensive ...
Yale University project studying crimes of the Pol Pot regime. Published 22,000 biographic and bibliographic records, over 6,000 photographs, and an interactive geographic database covering villages, ...
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...
A project by the Departments of Education in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland using ICT to link schools across the political border, facilitating collaborative educational programmes and i...
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