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.
Free, open-source software allowing human rights defenders to document incidents of abuse, upload bulletins, and store them on redundant servers worldwide, safeguarding and disseminating documentation...
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...
Aims to enhance social, political, and cultural cohesion in Sri Lanka through digital media productions, a project of the Centre for Policy Alternatives in partnership with IMPACS Canada.
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.
Makes electronic meeting systems and team creativity tools, connecting organisations into instant meeting and training events. Used by some groups to bring together people with different perspectives ...
Pioneering independent media based on exchange and participation, covering key questions of our time with contributions from renowned authors and marginalised voices, building and mapping intelligent ...
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