Mercy Corps: Social Media, Conflict, and Peace-building. “This paper, the product of a working group of NGO and academic experts, aims to be a practical statement about the ‘weaponization’ of social media and peacebuilding responses to it. It attempts to articulate an emerging consensus among peacebuilders about what we know about working in this area, and very practically, what approaches are effective or promising.”
The Irish News: New online archive launched of 22,500 EU peace-funded projects. “The searchable `PEACE Programmes Learning Platform’ holds thousands of different research reports, evaluations, testimonies and case studies of over 22,500 peace and reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland and the Republic’s border counties. Designed to support academics, researchers and those involved in peacebuilding, it is also publicly available.”
Washington Post: The D.C. Peace Museum That Never Happened. “A promised public museum at the congressionally chartered U.S. Institute of Peace failed to materialize. Why?”
New York University: Center on International Cooperation Launches Digital Tool to Map Data- and Tech-Driven Peacebuilding Work. “A new interactive digital tool visualizes more than 200 data- and tech-driven global peacebuilding organizations and projects, offering a real-time picture of the scope of peace work and its use of cutting-edge technologies.”
ReliefWeb: New platform puts women at the forefront of peacemaking. “A new online database of women mediators has been launched today, designed to enable more women to play crucial roles in peace and mediation processes around the world. The first of its kind, the platform serves as a publicly available resource to search for, and identity, qualified women mediators. It can be used by organisations such as the United Nations, or national governments involved in peace processes, to help them search for candidates based on their specific areas of expertise, location and languages.”
State of the Planet, Columbia University: New Website Maps and Models the Science of Peace. “A new website … centering on recent research on sustainably peaceful societies has just been launched at The Earth Institute at Columbia University. The website presents an interactive introduction to the findings and outputs of the work of a multidisciplinary team of scholars that began studying peaceful societies in 2014. It showcases a global map of peaceful societies, findings from hundreds of empirical studies, and peace tech visualizations and simulations from the Sustaining Peace Project at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4), which seeks to advocate for more a more comprehensive understanding of how peace is sustained with local stakeholders, policymakers, and academics.”
Misericordia University: Program celebrates student-faculty research, launch of website celebrating 100 years of Quaker peace initiatives. “In a collaborative project that is part research, part service learning, a class of students at Misericordia University is helping the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) celebrate its 100th anniversary by creating an online public history exhibit of the Quaker organization’s century of peace initiatives around the world.” The digital archive will come online May 10th.
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