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• New Tactics in Human Rights: A catalogue of ideas and resources

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  The one time I have participated in a discussion hosted by New Tactics in Human Rights was around a discussion on leverage mobile phones for advocacy and activism . This page alone is well worth a visit to the website. The group has now come out with New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners a ...
  3 days ago

• A billion for a billion: WFP tackles hunger through the web

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  You know its bound to fail, but embracing the web and social networking in the manner WFP has needs to be recognised, celebrated and supported as best one can. As reported in UN Dispatch , the World Food Program launched a new campaign, a billion for a billion . The idea is to link the 1 billion internet users ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tamil not an official language in some e-gov sites in Sri Lanka?

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  I wrote in April 2008 that , “You know there’s something seriously wrong with e-gov when the humanitarian section of official website of the President of Sri Lanka has only a single mention of a human (though one wonders whether the person mentioned also fell into the animal welfare directives of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moomeo: A perfect site for whistleblowers and anti-corruption initiatives?

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  Moomeo is a relatively new site based on a powerful, simple idea. It creates a webpage out of any email sent to post@moomeo.com. This website comes with easy links to share it on Facebook, Twitter and anywhere else on the web. Importantly, it does not show the sender of the email, ensuring that her / his identity is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Journalism, civil society and mobile networks

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  Jude Mathurine from Rhodes University has an interesting presentation on the impact of mobile phone based use of social networks in Africa . I’ve not yet come across a comparable study of new media’s use and impact in Sri Lanka, but the points on slides 3 and 7, noting that the Internet is still an elite medium ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tonight: Footy on the big screen (to take your mind off evil)

  
  Tofu Notes — Authority: 107
  In his recent roundup of the situation in Nigeria and Sudan, this Alex Thurston fella (who writes an excellent blog that I wish I wrote) touched on an issue Ive been meaning to mention: DDR. One of the most important components of a post-conflict peacebuilding effort - or even a peacekeeping operation - is the ...
  3 weeks ago

• United Nations Launches $300m Peace Building Initiative for Africa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  The United Nations Peace Building Commission (UN PBC) is undertaking peace building initiatives worth $350 million in four post-conflict African countries, UN officials said on Monday. Officials of the UN commission and the AU Peace and Security Council officials discussed peacemaking efforts in the post-conflict ...
  4 weeks ago

• The arrest of the ‘blogger’ in Sri Lanka: Crowd-sourcing trumps traditional media follow up

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  Ayubowan , a blog I didn’t know of before, helpfully posted a screen grab of a post from Gossip Lanka , a blog I also didn’t know of before, on the recent arrest of a blogger. Gossip Lanka’s post , which is in Sinhala, doesn’t render at all on my Mac, which is why Ayubowan’s screen grab is helpful. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• 1000 posts on Groundviews: Bearing witness, shaping peace

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  Exactly three years after its launch,  Groundviews published its 1000th post today. In it Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu identifies the site with quality debate and asks citizens to use it to canvass their ideas for constitutional reform, governance, human rights and the economy and whatever else they see as ...
  4 weeks ago

• Yoko Ono Gives Song To United Nations Peacebuilding Fund

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 514
  To celebrate the unifying spirit and 40th anniversary of the Plastic Ono Band’s universal anthem, “Give Peace a Chance,” Yoko Ono , Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon have partnered with EMI Music and Sony/ ATV Music Publishing to donate net proceeds from the sale of a commemorative 40th Anniversary digital ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mobiles, new media and citizen journalism in Kashmir

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  Photo credit: BBC World Service Kashmir has, according to a new BBC World Service documentary , the highest rate of mobile phone usage per capita in India although services were only introduced in 2003. As the BBC reporter points out, without mobile phone services there would be no cyber resistance. And there’s ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Mobile Phone Jirga: Supporting Rule of Law in Afghanistan with ODR

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  My friend Colin Rule’s put up this presentation on the use of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) using mobiles in Afghanistan around which he and I had several rounds of email discussion. I have championed the use of mobiles in ODR for years , and it’s good to see initiatives such as this use infrastructure ...
  5 weeks ago

• 31 Oct. UN Security Council Resolution on the Peacebuilding Role of Women

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 123
  31 Oct. UN Security Council Resolution on the Peacebuilding Role of WomenRene Wadlow*                 On 31 October 2002 , the UN Security Council adopted unanimously Resolution 1325      urging “Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making ...
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• Peace on Facebook

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 113
  The Persuasive Technology Lab of Stanford University seems to have teamed up with Facebook to create a dedicated page on Facebook celebrating initiatives and conversations using and on Facebook in support of peace. http://peace.facebook.com is in and of itself not a tool for peacebuilding, and does not for example ...
  5 weeks ago

• An Exciting Time to Work in Southern Sudan

  
  Voices of CRS — Authority: 134
  While southern Sudan desperately needs more schools, efforts are being made by the government, CRS and other agencies to give children the education they deserve. Photo by Debbie DeVoe/CRS Tom Purekal moved to Juba in July 2009 to serve as CRS’ program manager for peacebuilding and governance in southern Sudan. ...
  6 weeks ago

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