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.
At the forefront of documenting crimes and atrocities of the Khmer Rouge era, with thousands of documents available online including photographs, translations, maps, and biographical records.
An online dispute resolution mechanism integrating law with IT for dispute resolution by way of conciliation, mediation, and arbitration in virtual settings.
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...
For over 27 years, engaging teachers and students in examining racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism to promote a more humane and informed citizenry, with extensive educational resources available onli...
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.
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...
Designs and builds information management solutions and conducts statistical analysis on behalf of human rights projects, making scientifically defensible arguments based on rigorous evidence.
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...
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...
Brings people and stakeholders into collaborative workspaces to exchange information and build peace in Sri Lanka, including the One-Text Process - a virtual negotiations table for high-level peace pr...
A joint project of Cambridge University and the University of Toronto examining how states and non-state actors exploit information systems to pursue political objectives, studying the emerging dimens...
Works to improve access to information by fostering independent media and promoting open communications policies worldwide. Founded in 1982 to alleviate Cold War tensions using media, including pionee...
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