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.
Researches and develops innovative 'text free' and ICT-based methodologies (visual arts, storytelling, image theatre, gamelan, drama) for adult literacy in the border counties, using Flash-based envir...
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...
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...
Explores Internet filtering and surveillance practices by governments worldwide, examining how these erode civil liberties, privacy, and global communications, led by research from multiple universiti...
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...
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...
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...
BBC Radio Ulster's 'Legacy' project documented experiences of people affected by the Troubles. Throughout 1999, ordinary people told how the events of the last three decades in Northern Ireland affect...
Combines ICT training with peacebuilding activities in Sri Lanka, improving youths' chances for employment while helping build safer, more peaceful multi-ethnic environments affected by both conflict ...
An international archive of unique depth containing nearly 52,000 testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses, gathered in 56 countries and 32 languages, with biographical data and video testim...
Provides opportunities for young people (aged 16-25) in Belfast and Derry to accelerate personal development through creative use of technology, offering free broadband access, advice on jobs and educ...
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