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Strategy Lead & Co-founder at Build-Up

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Helena is a peacebuilding professional with over a decade of experience advising and working with civil society actors and multi-lateral organisations in conflict contexts and polarized environments. She specializes in the integration of digital technology and innovation processes to peace processes and civic dialogues, and in understanding how conflict drivers show up in digital spaces. She has published and spoken on these subject matters extensively. She is also an Advisor on Digital Technologies and Mediation to the United Nations Mediation Support Unit and an Ashoka Fellow. Helena previously served on the Boards of Elva Community Engagement, International Alert, ImpactHub Barcelona and the Stand-by Task Force, and currently serves on the Boards of Public Sentiment and Digital Peace Now. She holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a Masters in Public Policy (Economics) from Princeton University.

Helena es una profesional de la gobernanza y de la consolidación de la paz con más de una década de experiencia a sus espaldas en el campo de la asesoría y el apoyo a agencias de la ONU, organizaciones multilaterales y ONG que trabajan en contextos conflictivos y en entornos polarizados. En Build Up, se centra en la integración de la tecnología digital y la innovación de los procesos de paz, así como en el análisis de las causas del conflicto digital, tema sobre el que ha escrito y hablado de forma extensiva. Helena es licenciada en ciencias políticas, filosofía y economía por la Universidad de Oxford y tiene un máster en políticas públicas (economía) por la Universidad de Princeton. Es miembro del consejo de Public Sentiment y de Digital Peace Now, así como miembro de Ashoka.

Helena est une professionnelle de la gouvernance et de la consolidation de la paix avec plus d'une décennie d'expérience auprès d'agences de l'ONU, d'organisations multilatérales ou encore d'ONG dans des contextes de conflits et d'environnements polarisés. Chez Build Up, elle s'investit dans l'intégration de technologies numériques et d'innovations au sein de processus de paix, ainsi que dans l'analyse des moteurs de conflits numériques, sur lesquels elle a largement écrit et parlé. Helena a une licence de l'Université d'Oxford en politique, philosophie et économie, ainsi qu'un master en politiques publiques (économiques) de l'Université de Princeton. Elle est également membre du conseil d'administration de Public Sentiment et de Digital Peace Now, et membre de l'association Ashoka.

هيلينا هي مُحترفةٌ في الحوكَمة وبناء السلام بخبرةٍ تفوق عقدًا من الزمن في تقديم الاستشارات والدعم لوكالات الأمم المتحدة، والمنظّمات متعدّدة الأطراف والمنظّمات غير الحكومية العاملة في سياقات النزاع والبيئات المُستقطبة. في "بيلد آب"، تركّز هيلينا على دَمج التكنولوجيا الرقمية والابتكار بعمليّات السلام، كما على تحليل دوافع النزاعات الرقمية. وسبق لهيلينا الكتابة والكلام عن هذه المسائل على نطاقٍ واسعٍ. حازت هيلينا على شهادة البكالوريوس في السياسة والفلسفة وعلوم الاقتصاد من جامعة أكسفورد، وعلى شهادة الماستر في السياسات العامة (الاقتصادية) من جامعة برينستون. وتشغل هيلينا منصب عضو مجلس إدارة "بابليك سنتيمنت" و"ديجيتال بيس ناو"، بالإضافة إلى كونها زميلةً في زمالة آشوك

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Helena is a peacebuilding professional with over a decade of experience advising and working with civil society actors and multi-lateral organisations in conflict contexts and polarized environments. She specializes in the integration of digital technology and innovation processes to peace processes and civic dialogues, and in understanding how conflict drivers show up in digital spaces.

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Founder & Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace

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Stephen (Steve) Killelea AM is an Australian IT entrepreneur and the founder of the global think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace. He began his career, after doing a crash course in computing and working for a computer manufacturer, by developing a product for computer systems management that became internationally successful and led him to set up a US company, Software Products, that went public.

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Head of initiative, Giga (UNICEF)

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Christopher Fabian (born April 18, 1980) is a technologist who works for UNICEF. He founded technology and finance initiatives in both the public and private sector, including the creation in 2006, of UNICEF's Innovation Unit.

Fabian is an advocate of exploring new technology, and taking a "venture-style" approach to investments in the public sector. In this vein, he took part in the launch of the UNICEF's Innovation Fund, the United Nations Innovation Network at the UN Chief Executives' Board, UNICEF's Cryptocurrency Fund, and the Digital Public Goods Alliance.

Fabian regularly holds talks and lectures on the impact of technology on sustainable development.

Fabian studied philosophy at the American University in Cairo and at Trinity College in Dublin. He also holds a degree in Media Studies from the New School in New York, NY.

Before joining UNICEF, Fabian taught in Lebanon and founded companies in Africa and the Middle East, including a web portal in Tanzania.

He co-founded UNICEF's Office of Innovation in 2006, which focuses on connecting those with good ideas to those with the means to take them to scale. From 2007-2017, Fabian has been Senior Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Director at UNICEF.

In its early days, the Office of Innovation developed open source tools for improving basic health and communication in low-infrastructure regions. It helped build the largest mobile health system in the world in Nigeria, which reported on more than 17M births by SMS. Other tools include U-Report, which enables over 3 million young people in 34 developing and developed countries to be connected to decision makers via SMS, and globally via Twitter. The Office of Innovation has also used real-time SMS to help stop the spread of Ebola, smartphones to register children after a disaster, and tablet-based games to teach kids in Sudan.

Fabian has advocated for technologists in the development space to incorporate The Principles for Digital Development (first created by UNICEF and USAID). These Principles, such as be open source, build with local technologists, and build for sustainability, are used widely in the international development community.

In 2011, Fabian advised on the creation of a framework of innovations labs linking WHO, UNDP, UNICEF as well as public and private-sector partners around in-country innovation. In 2013, Fabian helped launch the Child Friendly Technology Framework (CFT), 52 worksheets used for brainstorming and project planning when an idea for a project with a technology component is focused on children and adolescents. In 2015, Fabian designed the first Global Innovation Summit for Children, co-organised by UNICEF and the Ministry Foreign Affairs of Finland.

UNICEF Innovation Fund

In 2015 he led the launch of UNICEF's Innovation Fund, a pooled funding vehicle built to quickly assess, fund and scale companies, teams, and ideas that have been developed in new and emerging markets.

In 2016, it added a UNICEF Ventures fund for small, early-stage investments. in 2016, Fabian has worked to build platforms that can allow for rapid development, testing, and deployment of new technologies and approaches to solving problems. Ventures work has included investment in "frontier technology" such as Drones, UAVs, data science and machine learning. Examples include the UNICEF Drone Corridor in Malawi, in 2016, and the "Magic Box" platform for working with large realtime datasets. The Magic Box platform allows companies like IBM, Google, and Telefonica to pool data so it can be used to make realtime decisions in emergencies.

As of 2020, the Innovation Fund held USD $20 million and has made over 60 investments in open source technology companies in 40 countries.

Other ventures

In 2018, with Robert Opp of WFP, he created the United Nations Innovation Network at the UN Chief Executives' Board. This informal network spanned 1400 staff from all UN agencies and was 'decentralized' in its governance.

In 2019, Fabian led UNICEF's launch of the first Cryptocurrency Fund in the United Nations. This Fund takes Ethereum or Bitcoin, holds it in its native form, and allows UNICEF to disperse it, as cryptocurrency, to open-source technology startups. The same year, Fabian also launched GIGA with Doreen Bogdan-Martin of ITU to finance connectivity for every school in the world. He and Sunita Grote were selected as one of WIRED Magazine's " WIRED25" for their work on building realtime maps of school connectivity, and creating financing partnerships based on aggregated connectivity demand.

In 2019, he also led the development of the Digital Public Goods Alliance - a platform built with the Government of Norway, Sierra Leone's DSTI (Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation) run by Minister David Sengeh, and India's iSpirit to identify and support open source software for public good.

Fabian believes that major global trends in technology and evolving power structures systematically and consistently affect poor people more negatively than wealthy ones and speaks about how public sector money and investing should be used to create public value and public capital, rather than simply continue and extend systems of inequality.

Fabian has said that he believes technology is not the end-product of innovation, but a driver of new ways of thinking about development problems. He talks about open-source projects, learning from failure, and having solutions designed and built by local talent.

He has lectured about South-to-North and South-to-South innovation, and developed a "Design for UNICEF" course which he taught at New York University (co-taught with Clay Shirky) and Columbia University. He has also taught or lectured at the Art Center, Aalto University, Harvard University, IIT Delhi, Singularity University, and Tsinghua University.

Fabian was also an Executive Producer of the virtual-reality film Clouds Over Sidra, created by Vrse.works. The film follows Sidra, a 12-year-old girl that has fled her home in Syria due to the ongoing crisis and found herself in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp.

"Un-chained: Experiments and Learnings in Crypto at UNICEF"

"Innovation for International Development: Navigating the Paths and Pitfalls", on "The Balancing Act of an Innovation Unit." (2016)

"How The Tech Sector Can Help Stop Ebola" (2014)

"The Ethics of Innovation" (2014)

"Adolescent Girls and Technology, Supporting Participatory Engagement." Chapter 7 in Adolescent Girls, Cornerstone of Society (2012)

"Using Mobile Technology to Unite (for) Children." Chapter in Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning. (2009)

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Christopher Fabian (born April 18, 1980) is a technologist who works for UNICEF. He founded technology and finance initiatives in both the public and private sector, including the creation in 2006, of UNICEF's Innovation Unit. Fabian is an advocate of exploring new technology, and taking a "venture-style" approach to investments in the public sector.

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Human Rights Lead at the Wikimedia Foundation, Co-Founder of AccessNow, Assistant Professor at Central European University

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Cameran Ashraf is an assistant professor at the School of Public Policy, head of Human Rights at the Wikimedia Foundation, and co-founder of international human rights and technology organization AccessNow. In recognition of his work, the European Parliament selected AccessNow as a finalist for the…

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Director and Principal Investigator at PeaceRep, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

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Incubating PeaceTech: The Peace and Transition Process Tracker ➡️

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Incubating PeaceTech: The Peace and Transition Process Tracker ➡️

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Closing session: where do we go from here?

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Digital Research Lead, How to Build Up

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At Build up, Krystel supports research and peace innovation programming, particularly in the areas of mentorship, data analysis, and development. Krystel is an intersectional feminist. She is a translator, researcher, and public policy consultant. She is most experienced in conflict resolution, conflict analysis, civil society development, Mainstreaming gender, and community mobilization. Being from Lebanon, a post-conflict and in-conflict country, she has worked to transform the violence and aggression she has witnessed as a young girl into a political agenda that can change the way we see power, influence, and development. She co-founded several civil society initiatives in Lebanon and the region, including a feminist cooperative based in Beirut and an international diaspora movement.

En Build Up, Krystel apoya la programación de innovación para la investigación y la paz, especialmente en las áreas de mentores, análisis de datos y desarrollo. Krystel es una feminista multidisciplinar. Es traductora, investigadora y asesora de políticas públicas. Tiene una amplia experiencia en la resolución y análisis de conflictos, desarrollo de la sociedad civil, transversalidad de género y movilización de la comunidad. Al ser del Líbano, un país con conflictos pasados y presentes, ha trabajado para transformar la violencia y agresiones de las que ha sido testigo de niña en una agenda política que puede cambiar la forma en la que vemos el poder, las influencias y el desarrollo. Es cofundadora de diferentes iniciativas de la sociedad civil en Líbano y en la región, incluyendo una cooperativa feminista con sede en Beirut y un movimiento internacional de la diáspora.

Au sein de Build Up, Krystel soutient la planification de la recherche et de l'innovation pour la paix, en particulier dans les domaines du mentorat, de l'analyse de données et du développement. Krystel est une féministe intersectionnelle. Elle est traductrice, chercheuse et consultante en politiques publiques. Son expérience culmine en résolution de conflits, analyse des conflits, développement de la société civile, mobilisation communautaire et institutionnalisation de l'égalité de genre. Originaire du Liban, pays dans une situation à la fois de post-conflit et de conflit, elle œuvre à transformer la violence et l'agression auxquelles elle a été confrontée comme jeune fille en un agenda politique capable de changer notre vision du pouvoir, de l'influence et du développement. Elle a cofondé plusieurs initiatives de la société civile au Liban et dans la région, parmi lesquelles une coopérative féministe à Beyrouth, ainsi qu'un mouvement international de la diaspora libanaise.

في "بيلد آب"، تعمل كريستال في البحث وبرمَجة ابتكار السلام، لاسيما في مجالات التوجيه والإرشاد، تحليل البيانات والتنمية. كريستال نسويةٌ تقاطعيةٌ، وهي مترجمة، باحثةٌ ومستشارةٌ في السياسات العامة. تتركّز خبراتها في مجالات حلّ النزاعات وتحليلها، التنمية عبر المجتمع المدني، إدماج الجندر وحشد المجتمع. ولكونها من لبنان، وهو بلدٌ يعيش النزاع ومرحلة ما بعد النزاع، عملت كريستال على تحويل العنف والعدوانية اللذين شهدتهما في طفولتها إلى أجندةٍ سياسيةٍ يمكنها تغيير نظرتنا إلى القوة، التأثير والتنمية. شاركت كريستال في تأسيس عددٍ من مبادرات المجتمع المدني في لبنان والمنطقة، بما في ذلك تعاونيةٌ نسويةٌ مقرّها بيروت وحركةٌ دوليةٌ من المغتربات والمغتربين

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At Build up, Krystel supports research and peace innovation programming, particularly in the areas of mentorship, data analysis, and development. Krystel is an intersectional feminist. She is a translator, researcher, and public policy consultant. She is most experienced in conflict resolution, conflict analysis, civil society development, Mainstreaming gender, and community mobilization.

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The conference will discuss how technology can enhance peace at the global level and how investment in PeaceTech can help achieve short-term and long-term peace.

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Global PeaceTech Conference 2022 - Globalpeacetech

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At the first Annual Conference of the Global PeaceTech Hub, experts and will discuss how technology can enhance peace at the global level.

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The latter group claimed that Christian martyrs were thrown into the well; an account that the founder of the present buildings tested by dipping his glove into the well and recovered it dripping with blood.

The 15th century church - which is still used for the annual EUI conferring ceremony and other events - stands on the site of the 11th century one and includes a marble façade from the 12th century of a style seen throughout Florence. The attached monastery was inhabited by Fiesole bishops that spent the 12th century embroiled in disputes with Camaldolese abbots from Arezzo province, and three centuries later the Badia reached such economic hardship it had to be bailed out by the pope.

Cosimo 'the elder', of the Medici political dynasty, funded the construction of the Badia complex and "thought how that place ought to be lived in by excellent and lettered men, and for this took thought to make a worthy library there," according to a bookseller at the time. This wish was however interrupted in 1520 when the Badia was temporarily used as a hospice for the incurables of Florence's syphilis epidemic.

Less than a decade later Charles V used the Badia for his troops' headquarters during the siege of Florence, damaging much of the interior and cutting down the surrounding vines and olive trees.

During the following centuries the Badia was at different times a summer residence for bishops, a printing and engraving shop and civilian housing. The Italian government offered the building as the home of the EUI and after extensive work the Badia was transformed into the space we see today.

To reach the Badia from the bus stop in San Domenico, cross the road, walk 50 metres in the direction of Fiesole (the same direction as the bus).

Then take the first road on the left, opposite the church and cemetery (Via dei Roccettini).

Via dei Roccettini 9,

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Biography

Dr Andrea Calderaro is a Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Fellow and Coordinator of the "Cyber Diplomacy and Digital Transformations in the Global South" Project at the Global Peace Tech Hub / School of Transnational Governance. He is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in International Relations, director of the Centre for Internet and Global Politics, and a member of the Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Analytics at Cardiff University. He holds his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute.

His research centres on Technology and International Relations, with a focus on cybersecurity, cyber diplomacy, transnational governance of the internet, digital transformations in the Global South, and the role of the EU in international cooperation in the cyber domain. He has conducted research and supported cyber capacity building initiatives in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and in EU institutions. His current research addresses Cyber Security Capacity Building in the Global South and Cyber Diplomacy via two ESRC IAA funded projects on "Decolonizing International Cooperation in the Cyber Domain: the promise of building Cyber Diplomacy Capacity" (2022-), "Cybersecurity Capacity Building in the Global South" (2021-), and was principle investigator of the projects "Framing an EU Cybersecurity Strategy" (2017-2018), and "Technology for Peace and Security" (2012) funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

He has published co-edited volumes, including "Internet Diplomacy: shaping the global politics of cyberspace" (2022, Rowman & Littlefield), articles appeared on "Third World Quarterly", "Policy and Internet", "International Journal of E-Politics", "European Security", and he is a co-Editor of the "Digital Technologies and Global Politics" Book Series at Rowman & Littlefield. His work has featured on Al Jazeera "Inside Story", BBC, BBC Radio, Rai News 24, Radio Rai, The New Statesman, The Verge, New York Times, Reuters, La Repubblica, Open Democracy, Deutsche Welle.

He is a member of the Global Forum of Cyber Expertise (GFCE)' Research Board, and served as a member of the "EU Cyber Capacity Building" Task Force (European Commission/EUISS), the UN Open-Ended Working Group on "Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security", the UNESCO "Internet Universality Program" Advisory Board, the Global Internet Policy Observatory's Advisory Group (European Commission), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)'s Advisory Board on Cyber Diplomacy, and of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council Board at the OECD. With his research, Dr Calderaro has supported initiatives led by the House of Lords, UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), European Commission, EU Parliament, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (German Development Agency - GIZ), United Nations.

He has been a Visiting Fellow and worked at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Humboldt University, LUISS Guido Carli, University La Sapienza, University of Oslo.

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Dr Andrea Calderaro is a Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Fellow and Coordinator of the "Cyber Diplomacy and Digital Transformations in the Global South" Project at the Global Peace Tech Hub / School of Transnational Governance.

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Executive Director, AI for Peace

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Juan Carlos Lucero Zelada (KluzPrize Winner)

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Juan Carlos Lucero Zelada (KluzPrize Winner)

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Executive Director of the School of Transnational Governance (EUI)

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Buontalenti - Ex Dogana, BTD301

Working languages

Italian, English, Danish, French

Biography

Fabrizio Tassinari is the Executive Director and Berggruen Fellow at the EUI's School of Transnational Governance, where he develops the overall strategic direction, the design and the policy programme of the School.

Prior to joining the School, Tassinari served as Senior Researcher and Head of Foreign Policy Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen. A recipient of a German government's Alexander von Humboldt award, he has also been an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social Science at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2012.

Tassinari, a political scientist, has a background in research and policy advice on questions of democracy, governance and international security, in and around Europe. He published extensively on peer-reviewed journals and volumes and is the author of the book Why Europe Fears its Neighbors (Praeger) reprinted in an updated edition for the mass market and translated into Turkish (Inkilap). His writings and opinions regularly feature in mainstream international media, such as the Economist, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Le Figaro and Die Welt.

Prior to joining DIIS in 2009, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen and as an Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and a BA summa cum laude in Political Science from La Sapienza University in Rome.

Among his advisory positions, he served as a Fellow at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies and at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, as well as a senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin.

Recent research output

GALARIOTIS, Ioannis; TASSINARI, Fabrizio (2021), Europe 'forged in crisis'? : problematising the North-South cleavage in Europe's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Contribution to book

STUBB, Alexander; TASSINARI, Fabrizio (2022), Can Italy maintain its pandemic-era transformation?, Article

STUBB, Alexander; TASSINARI, Fabrizio (2022), Un buongoverno endemico per l'Italia, Article

STUBB, Alexander; TASSINARI, Fabrizio (2022), Can Italy maintain its pandemic-era transformation?, Other

FALEG, Giovanni (ed/s), BISCA, Paul M.; BROWN, Edward K.; CALANDRO, Enrico; CILLIERS, Jakkie; GEBREMICHAEL, Mesfin; ISACSSON, Joachim; KELL, Fergus; LAVINAL, Olivier; MUSTASILTA, Katariina; NARBONE, Luigi; PALLESCHI, Carlo; PAPA, Carlo; PAWLAK, Patryk; PORTELA, Clara; ROBINSON, Melanie; SARTORI, Nicolò; TASSINARI, Fabrizio; VENTURI, Bernardo; VINES, Alex; WOOLFREY, Sean (2021), Free trade, peace and prosperity, Working Paper

TASSINARI, Fabrizio; MARU, Mehari Taddele (2021), Global rivalry in the Red Sea : a 'geopolitical' European Union should encourage cooperation in the Red Sea region, Other

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Office Buontalenti - Ex Dogana, BTD301 Working languages Italian, English, Danish, French Fabrizio Tassinari is the Executive Director and Berggruen Fellow at the EUI's School of Transnational Governance, where he develops the overall strategic direction, the design and the policy programme of the School.

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Founder and CEO of Kluz Ventures

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KluzPrize for PeaceTech – Award ceremony  ➡️

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KluzPrize for PeaceTech – Award ceremony  ➡️

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KluzPrize for PeaceTech call open - Globalpeacetech

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The KluzPrize for PeaceTech rewards researchers and practitioners who, through their applied research and innovative projects, study or exploit the opportunities offered by emerging technologies to have a positive impact on peace and cooperation across borders.

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Executive Director of the Peace Innovation Lab

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Ted Wallach | Visiting Scholar

Ted Wallach cut his teeth under Martin Scorsese. Directing and producing for over a decade in Bollywood, Hollywood, the Middle East, and Europe, his last film, Misdirection (narrated & produced by Common; on iTunes) in which kids escape the ghetto by becoming magicians, led to his creating a performance of a Blood-turned-magician for Google's Peace Summit, where eighty "formers" (Neo-Nazis, gang members, terrorists) met to end the radicalization of youth.

As the original Creative Director of WeWork, Ted created campaigns from ending oil subsidies in America to building wells in Africa with Charity Water. After four years at different marketing agencies in NYC, he created The AMEX Trifecta of Upward Mobility with the Small Business Saturday team.

He became CSO then CEO of TimeRepublik a global digital time bank and returned to THNK: School for Creative Leaders where he did his post-graduate work to serve as an expert in residence supporting fledgling ventures with digital alternative currency strategies.

Ted now has a clinical practice in which he coaches individuals using a combination of Taoism and Quantum Mechanics to support feeling management, overcoming obstacles and manifesting that which they are trying to build in their lives.

He has become especially interested in the effect masculinity has on both men and women and has started Quantum Warrior an online men's circle with his partner Eric Shanks. Together they are launching a podcast about masculinity with the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford where Ted is currently a visiting scholar.

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Ted Wallach | Visiting Scholar Ted Wallach cut his teeth under Martin Scorsese. Directing and producing for over a decade in Bollywood, Hollywood, the Middle East, and Europe, his last film, Misdirection (narrated & produced by Common; on iTunes) in which kids escape the ghetto by becoming magicians, led to his creating a performance of a Blood-turned-magician for Google's Peace Summit, where eighty "formers" (Neo-Nazis, gang members, terrorists) met to end the radicalization of youth.

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Founder and Co-Director of the Peace Innovation Lab

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Mark focuses on designing, catalyzing, incentivizing, and generating resources to scale up collective positive human behavior change. He has described a functional, quantitative definition of peace, in terms of technology-mediated engagement episode quantity and quality across social difference lines; he has identified innovative, automated ways to measure peace, both at the neighborhood and global level; and he has developed a formal structural description for peace data. He leads the Global Open Social Sensor Array Project, and designs technology interventions to measurably increase positive, mutually beneficial engagement across conflict boundaries. Mark's mission is to create an entire new, profitable industry, where positive peace is delivered as a service. other projects include epic global challenge and peace markets. mark is also a researcher and practitioner at Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, and a member of Stanford's Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory.

Conferences and Presentations

2014

Peace Innovation Framework, Hack for Peace In the Middle East, PITME, San Francisco 2014

2013

Impact of Social Technologies on Governance, Legitimacy and Rule of Law Civil Military Operations and the Rule of Law Course, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2013

Can We Design Peace? Future Talk,Mountain View, CA 2013

USAID Resilient Africa Network, Kampala, Uganda, 2013

Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments, Rule of Law Course, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2013

Peace Innovation - An Overview, Bar Ilan University Delegation, Stanford, CA 2013

Peace Innovation - An Overview, COWI, Aalborg, Denmark 2013

Turban Myths: An Analysis of Anti-Sikh American Bias and Hate Crimes Peace Innovation Workshop, SALDEF, Stanford, CA 2013

2012

Paris TelecomTech Peace Innovation Workshop, Stanford University 2012

Peace Innovation Workshops, Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley April, May 2012

Positive Effects Technologies, TEDxHult, Hult University, 2012

Peace Innovation Workshop, Hult University 2012

The Business of Peace podcast, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2012

Behavior Design Interventions and Frameworks, Security and Development Course, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2012

Impact of Social Technologies on Governance, Legitimacy and Rule of Law Civil Military Operations and the Rule of Law Course, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2012

2011

USIP Blogs and Bullets Conference, United States Institute for Peace, Stanford University 2011Gaming for the Greater Good, Stanford Business School, 2011

Hack4Egypt, Stanford University 2011

Hack4Egypt2, Stanford University, 2011

Blogs & Bullets2, United States Institute for Peace, Washington DC 2011

Briefing on Collective Intelligence and Agile Ad-hoc Emergent Organizations, NATO PSYOP Conference, Orlando, FL 2011

2010

Social M, Stanford University, 2010

Relief 2.0 in Haiti, Stanford University, 2010

Relief 2.0 Chile, Stanford University 2010

2009

EPIC Global Challenge Weekly Seminar Series, Stanford University, 2009-2011

Mark Nelson is a researcher and entrepreneur at Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, and co-founder of the Peace Innovation Lab, both within HSTAR, the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute. He is also a member of the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory.

Mark's research is at the intersection of mass collaboration and mass interpersonal persuasion, and is focused on designing, catalyzing, incentivizing, and generating resources for collective human behavior change, at scale. Mark is a thought-leader on these topics, and advises businesses, universities, governments and NGOs in these areas, particularly those interested in designing or implementing open innovation platforms, mass collaboration tools, augmented reality games and other applications to influence human behavior for good.

Special Skills

Persuasive technology, peace innovation, gaming for good, mass collaboration, crowdsourcing, crowd-funding, collective intelligence, open innovation

Business model development, business planning, marketing strategy development.

Field experience in South Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

Broad experience with private, government, international and non-profit organizations.

Has lectured at conferences and organized multi-stakeholder workshops

Fast ad-hoc multi-disciplinary team building

Speaks, reads and writes in Spanish, English, Neo-Melanesian

Areas of Expertise

Strategic consulting, including business model development, business planning, marketing strategy development.

Founder, Imperial Trust, international merchant bank in Ethiopia

Founder, North American division Imperial Trust, international investment bank

Founder of PactFund a time bank platform for providing mobile payment capability for collaborative, P2P social micro-capital through social ventures and causes around the world.

Advisor Panango. Panango strives to encourage positive and sustainable development in Papua New Guinea through English education and cultural exchange.

Instructor Center for a Rural Alternative in El Limón de Ocoa (CAREL), Dominican Republic. Connected remote mountain village school to the Internet and to Cornell's distance education program. Co-organized the arte y desarollo project.

Researcher, Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab

Science Advisor, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium on Shikakeology: Designing Triggers for Behavior Change

Co-Founder, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab

Principal Architect, Global OPEN Social Sensor Network Project, a Stanford led, Open Source, Open Innovation project organized in collaboration with a global network of university and industry partners, to integrate social engagement meta-data in one place.

Co-Founder, Peace Innovation Field Lab Network, a growing network of partner innovation labs in cities throughout Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Founder Epic Global Challenge. EPIC creates frameworks, technology, tools and incentive prizes to empower individuals to create innovation networks to solve complex global problems.

Senior Fellow, SocialxDesign, strategy consulting firm dedicated to bridging the worlds of online engagement and offline experience for businesses, government agencies, and NGOs. Clients include the White House, Department of Labor, State Department, European Commission, BestBuy and Unilever.

Founder, PeaceMarkets. Peace Markets is correcting distortions in the price signal (and therefore perceived value) of peace, defined as positive engagement across conflict boundaries. We accomplish this by identifying the industry sectors that suffer loss from conflict, and creating a commodity exchange for Minimum Acceptable Peaceful Interactions (MAPIs). This will allow industries in those sectors to hedge their conflict exposure risk, by purchasing measurable, proven peaceful interventions as investments.

Project Lead, peace.facebook.com where friend connections created each day between people of different regions, religions, and political affiliations are tracked on the Facebook platform.

Project Architect, Global OPEN Social Sensor Network Project. Identified innovative, automated ways to measure peace, both at the neighborhood and global level; and has developed a formal structural description for Peace Data.

Advisor Vipani. Advised Vipani on the application of persuasive technology for the effective reduction of corruption and increase of trust in developing economies, by non-coercive, non-punitive, and highly cost effective means.

Advisor, Gumball Capital. Gumball Capital engages students with entrepreneurship for social good through microfinance.

Advisor, Social-M. Social-M channels the creative, entrepreneurial energy of Stanford students into University-supported initiatives. The objective is to more effectively motivate, unite, and leverage the Stanford community to make lasting social change.

Hurricane relief work, Dominican Republic & Haiti

Famine relief work, Ethiopia & Sudan (Fellowship for African Relief)

Founding Partner with Relief 2.0 (2010), disaster response with local stakeholders, social networks and technology. http://www.relief20.com

Hosted Haiti 2.0 workshop at Stanford which gathered 80 stakeholders from the academic, NGO and volunteer communities where they shared their uses of social media for disaster response.

Hosted Chile 2.0 workshop at Stanford where Chilean professors worked with social media practitioners to apply crowdsourcing concepts to earthquake relief.

Guest speaker at TEDxHult.

Endorsements

"If you're trying to solve a really complex, multi-faceted problem, ask Mark. If it's something that's stumped the best minds for years, ask Mark to help you lay out a plan of attack and define the ideal problem-solving team-whether that be a hand-picked group of experts or an everybody-welcome crowd. Mark is brilliant yet humble, passionate yet patient. I've had the pleasure of collaborating with him through the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab (Open Innovation brainstorming for the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and on Innovation Management Institute program design. What a great pleasure and honor! My advice: If you ever have the opportunity to work with Mark, seize it!" ~ March 2, 2012 Julian Keith Loren, Co-Founder, Innovation Management Institute

"Mark is a master of balance. He has phenomenal bandwidth and a sweeping vision that is also grounded in reality and practicality. Similarly, he is a very pleasant person to work with and be around: sincere, generous, and gracious yet also a courageous and tough-minded leader." January 1, 2010 ~Jessica Margolin, EPIC Global Challenge, Stanford University

"Mark has an amazing ability to sift through complex information and arrive at both tactical and strategic solutions." ~ February 25, 2011 Joseph Gilby, Owner, TorchGlow Entertainment worked directly with Mark at Vipani.org

Relevant Experience

Senior Fellow, SocialxDesign, 2012

Co-Founder. Peace Innovation Lab, Stanford University, 2010-present

Researcher. Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University, 2008-present

Project Lead. EPIC Global Challenge, Stanford University, 2009-present

Collaboration Evangelist. Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, Stanford University, 2008-present

Member. Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory, Stanford University

Advisor. Vipani, 2010-2011

Advisor. Gumball Capital, 2010-2011

Advisor. Panango, 2008-2010

Advisor. Social-M, Stanford University, 2010

Co-Founder, PactFund, 2007-present

Founder. Imperial Trust

Education

Ukarumpa International School, Papua New Guinea, 1969 - 1981

Ukarumpa High School, Papua New Guinea, 1968 - 1981

Conferences

Organizer of over two dozen seminar series, conferences and workshops in peace innovation, persuasive technology, mass persuasion and disaster response and recovery.

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Founder of Color Up Peace / Visiting Scholar at SaferGlobe

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Keough School - University of Notre Dame

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Expertise

Technology; media; human security; social cohesion; social justice; conflict assessment; dialogue; mediation; peace process design; religion; ritual; arts; nonviolent social movements; violent extremism

At the Keough School

Lisa Schirch is a core faculty member of the Keough School's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Courses

Biography & Research

Lisa Schirch has 30 years of experience in peacebuilding research, policy advocacy, practice, and teaching. A political scientist by training, she earned her PhD in 1989 from George Mason University's Carter Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Schirch's most recent book, Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Tech-tonic Shift (Routledge, 2021) features thirteen local case studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The book maps how digital technologies drive "social climate change," including polarization, extremist anti-immigrant, and anti-minority purity narratives.

Schirch's current research focuses on the positive roles of technology in "peacetech" and "digital peacebuilding." She is a senior research fellow with the Toda Peace Institute, where she coordinates with civil society and technology companies to experiment and innovate new technologies that can scale social cohesion.

As a researcher, Schirch has an extensive history of research and publication. A former Fulbright Fellow in East and West Africa, Schirch is the author of eleven books emphasizing local civil society agency and capacity, including Strategic Peacebuilding (2005), Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding (2006), Dialogue on Difficult Subjects (2007), Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security (2014), The Ecology of Violent Extremism (2018), Synergizing Nonviolent Action & Peacebuilding (2018) and Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Tech-tonic Shift (2021). Her publications have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Thai, and Japanese.

As a policy advisor, Schirch built the first peacebuilding policy initiative in Washington, DC, as the founding director of the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Policy Program from 2006-2015. Schirch brought delegations of peacebuilding practitioners from Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries to Congress and trained over 1,000 US Foreign Service Officers and military officers on civil society peacebuilding and the relevance of the Geneva Conventions to civil-military relations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, she co-led a three-year global research process documenting civil society innovations in relating to security forces resulting in two publications: a Handbook on Human Security (2016) and Local Ownership in Security: Case Studies of Peacebuilding Approaches (2016).

As a practitioner, Schirch has experience in peace process design, mediation, and facilitation in over twenty countries. Beginning as a mediator for the Washington, DC, courts in 1992, Schirch has facilitated intergroup dialogue in diverse settings, including between black and white city leaders in Richmond, Virginia, and between civil society leaders and the US military in Afghanistan. As a practitioner, Schirch works primarily with local peacebuilding initiatives innovating new methods of combining dialogue and social movements to transform conflict. Schirch co-facilitated the national peace process in Fiji in 2001. Her book Designing a Comprehensive Peace Process for Afghanistan describes eight mechanisms for local civil society participation in formal peace processes and how these could work in Afghanistan, based on three years of in-country research from 2009 to 2011. She has provided training and support to the UN Mediation Support team, drawing on her book Synergizing Nonviolent Action & Peacebuilding for information on how to sequence social movement tactics and peace negotiations.

Recognition for Schirch's research has come in various forms. Schirch served as co-chair of the US State Department working group on Religious Actors, Diplomacy, and Peacebuilding from 2015 to 2016 and on the Dutch government's Security and Rule of Law Platform Research Review Panel from 2016 to 2020. Since 2015, she has served on the Geneva-based Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund's International Panel of Experts. Schirch has presented her research as a keynote speaker at two Pentagon conferences, during Congressional hearings on national security, at UN headquarters in Geneva and New York, and in London's Whitehall, Chatham House, and Wilton Park.

As a teacher, Schirch served as professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University 's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and from 1995-2020, as both graduate and undergraduate faculty and co-founder of the PAX major in peace and development studies. Schirch has taught short courses at nearly 20 other universities and with local civil society groups.

Recognition for Schirch's research has come in various forms. Schirch served as co-chair of the US State Department working group on religious actors, diplomacy, and peacebuilding from 2015-2016 and on the Dutch government's security and rule of law platform research review panel from 2016-2020. Since 2015, she has served on the Geneva-based Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund's international panel of experts. Schirch has presented her research as a keynote speaker at two Pentagon conferences, during congressional hearings on national security, at UN headquarters in Geneva and New York, and in London's Whitehall, Chatham House, and Wilton Park.

Recent Work

Book Chapter: "Conflict Analysis: A System's Approach." L. Schirch. Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict, Peace Processes, and Post-war Reconstruction. Edited by Roger Mac Ginty and Anthony Wanis St. John UK Palgrave - MacMillan, 2022.

Policy Brief: Transforming the Colour of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance US Multiracial Democracy. Toda Peace Institute. September 2021.

Policy Brief: "The COVID-19 Pandemic, Digital Threats and Urban Violence Prevention." Peace in Our Cities, Impact:Peace, UK AID. February 2021.

Research Article: "Trauma Triggers and Narratives on Israel and Palestine." L. Schirch. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. Volume 13, No. 3, 2018.

Policy Brief: Schirch, Lisa, Jennifer Easterday, Hana Ivanhoe. (2022). Comparing Guidance for Tech Companies in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations. (Policy Brief No. 125). Toda Peace Institute.

Book Chapter: Lisa Schirch 2022: "Decolonising Peacebuilding: A Way Forward out of Crisis." Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation, Online Edition. Berlin: Berghof Foundation, in collaboration with Toda Peace Institute. First launch 20/04/2022.

Book Chapter: "Conflict Analysis: A System's Approach." In Contemporary Peacemaking: Peace Processes, Peacebuilding and Conflict. Edited by Roger Mac Ginty and Anthony Wanis-St. John. Palgrave Macmillan; 3rd ed. 2022 edition.

Article: "Tech Ethics: Lessons from Anabaptism and Peacebuilding." Conrad Grebel Review. Volume 39, Number 2. Spring 2021.

Chapter: "Ritual in an Age of Terror: From Trump to the Taliban." In Coping Rituals in Fearful Times. Edited by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox. Springer 2022.

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Technology; media; human security; social cohesion; social justice; conflict assessment; dialogue; mediation; peace process design; religion; ritual; arts; nonviolent social movements; violent extremism Lisa Schirch is a core faculty member of the Keough School's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Lisa Schirch has 30 years of experience in peacebuilding research, policy advocacy, practice, and teaching.

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Wrap-up of main insights from the thematic discussions

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PeaceTech toolkit for peacebuilding in the 21st century

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PeaceTech toolkit for peacebuilding in the 21st century

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Coordinator: Krystel Tabet | Digital Research Lead at How to Build Up

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This session , organised as part of the Global PeaceTech Conference 2022, will show how digital technologies can be used effectively to promote peace in polarised contexts.

In this workshop, Peace Tech Lab and Build Up will present concrete examples drawn from the yearly experience in PeaceTech on how digital technologies can be used effectively to promote peace in polarised contexts.

In particular Build Up will share lessons learned as well as examples of interventions designed to tackle polarisation online and to rehumanise relationships in the digital public sphere from Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan. Build Up will also introduce its in-house methodology and approach to listening and analysing social media, which represents the first step for the effective design of peacebuilding initiatives online.

The workshop will include an exercise where participants will be given a case study from Lebanon that looks at polarisation against Syrian refugees. The participants will be asked to use the results to design an intervention online.
The venue for in-person attendance and the zoom link for remote participation will be shared upon registration.
This session is organised as part of the Global PeaceTech Conference 2022. For further information please visit globalpeacetech.org

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PeaceTech Toolkit for Peacebuilding in the 21st Century

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This session , organised as part of the Global PeaceTech Conference 2022, will show how digital technologies can be used effectively to promote peace in polarised contexts. In this workshop, Peace Tech Lab and Build Up will present concrete examples drawn from the yearly experience in PeaceTech on how digital technologies can be used effectively to promote peace in polarised contexts.

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Cyber Peace: Cooperating for the Stability and Security of the Cyber domain

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Cyber Peace: Cooperating for the Stability and Security of the Cyber domain

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Coordinator: Andrea Calderaro | Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Fellow, Associate Professor in International Relations and Director of the Centre for Internet and Global Politics at Cardiff University.

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Cyber Peace: Cooperating for the Stability and Security of the Cyber domain

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The event, organised as part of the Global PeaceTech Conference 2022, addresses the challenges and opportunities of Cyber Diplomacy as a new diplomatic practice.

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Three open-registration parallel thematic sessions in three different rooms. As participants invited to the conference you don't need to register but only communicate your preference to the organisers

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Towards Ethical Design and Implementation of AI in Peacebuilding

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Towards Ethical Design and Implementation of AI in Peacebuilding

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Artificial Intelligence brought many technical, legal, and ethical questions that exceed the scope of existing ICT ethics frameworks. Algorithms are a new type of tool that differs in many ways from ICT devices and other hardware as well as from systems traditionally used for the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of information. In addition to that, some of AI applications come with unintentional harms or unintended consequences approaches that intend to sustain peace and prevent conflict but also cause harms and exacerbate conflict and violence. Raising awareness about these risks, applying tools to mitigate them and transfer ethical principles into the practice of AI-based projects is a necessary first step of designing and applying ethical AI-based peacebuilding work.

This workshop will explore the possibility of creating a more central ethics resource for peacebuilding practitioners working with AI-based technologies. AI for Peace will present insight from their research and interviews conducted with practitioners and based on those engage workshop participants in co-creating a sort of a Primer or a Guide for Ethical AI in Peacebuilding field.

The objective is to learn from experiences of workshop participants, and jointly explore best practices and opportunities for ensuring the design and implementation of Ethical AI in Peacebuilding. The workshop is open to all in-person participants of the Global Peace Tech Conference 2022, experts and representatives from different Peace Tech Labs, research institutes, non-profit organizations, governments, and companies.

Jennifer Easterday, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Justpeace Labs (tbc)

Branka Panic, Founder and Executive Director, AI for Peace

Andrea Renda, Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID) at CEPS and Professor of Digital Policy at the EUI School of Transnational Governance, TBC

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief R&D Officer at The GovLab, New York University

The venue for in-person attendance and the zoom link for remote participation will be shared upon registration.
This session is organised as part of the Global PeaceTech Conference 2022. For further information please visit globalpeacetech.org

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How PeaceTech can Scale Social Cohesion ➡️

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How PeaceTech can Scale Social Cohesion ➡️

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CEO of the PeaceTech Lab

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PeaceTech's Greatest Challenge: The Global Information Environment  ➡️

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PeaceTech's Greatest Challenge: The Global Information Environment  ➡️

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Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE, University of Lucerne

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Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Ethics ISE, University of Lucerne

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Global PeaceTech, Human Rights and Ethics  ➡️

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Global PeaceTech, Human Rights and Ethics  ➡️

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Researcher at The GovLab (NYU)

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Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Office at The GovLab (NYU)

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Adjunct Professor of Digital Policy at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI). Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID) at CEPS

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From sensors to detect explosives to geographic data for disaster relief to artificial intelligence verifying misleading online content, data and technology are essential assets for peace efforts. Indeed, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is a direct example of data, data science, and technology as a whole has been mobilized to assist and monitor conflict responses and support peacebuilding.

Yet understanding the ways in which technology can be applied for peace, and what kinds of peace promotion they can serve, as well as their associated risks remain muddled. Thus, a framework for the governance of these peace technologies—#PeaceTech—is needed at an international and transnational level to guide the responsible and purposeful use of technology and data to strengthen peace and justice initiatives.

“PeaceTech Topic Map: A Research Base for an Emerging Field,” is an overview of the key themes and challenges of technologies used by and created for peace efforts.

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Coordinator of the Global PeaceTech Hub, EUI School of Transnational Governance

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Chair in Global Affairs at the EUI School of Transnational Governance

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Biography

Kalypso Nicolaidis is Chair in Global Affairs at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI), where inter alia she convenes the EUI Democracy Forum. She is currently on leave from the University of Oxford and was professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Ecole Nationale d'Admistration, Paris. She has worked with numerous EU institutions, including as a member of the European Council's reflection group on the future of Europe chaired by Felipe González (2008-10), and is a Council member of ECFR. She also served as advisor on European affairs to George Papandreou in the 90s and early 2000s, the Dutch and UK governments, the European Parliament, the European Commission, OECD and UNCTAD.

At the EUI, Professor Nicolaidis teaches courses on 'Transnational Politics and Institutions', 'Responsible Negotiation', 'Transnational Democracy in the XXI Century' and EU-Africa relations as part of STG's master's, executive education and Young African Leaders programmes.
She is co-convener or chair of a number of initiatives at STG and EUI including: the EUI-wide cluster on Democracy in the XXIst century, the EUI Democracy Forum, the STG Transnational Democracy Initiative at STG, and the Global Peace Tech Hub.
She is also engaged in collaborative projects with the Robert Schuman Center, including on 'Democracy in Flux,' 'Europe in the World', the 'Oxford-based Dahrendorf programme', EU external trade and regulatory relations, and the European Governance and Politics Programme. And she participates in the EUI cluster on Eurocentricism and the Decolonizing initiative.

Her research revolves around internal and external aspects of European integration as well as global affairs, theaters of recognition, democratic theory, transnational legal empathy and social solidarity, global governance and international trade, sustainable integration, post-colonialism, myth and politics and the import of new technologies on international relations.
Her last books are: A Citizen's Guide to the Rule of Law - Why We Need to Fight for the Most Precious Human Inventions of All Time (with Adis Merdzanovic, 2021); Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit (2019). 'The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost?', ( with Sternberg and Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Palgrave, 2018) and 'Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies' (edited with Sebe, I.B. Taurus, 2015).

More details on projects and publications can be found on her website: http://kalypsonicolaidis.com.

Research Projects and Working groups

Recent research output

LENZ, Tobias; NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2019), EU-topia? : a critique of the European Union as a model, Article

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso; VERGERIO, Claire; FISHER-ONAR, Nora; VIEHOFF, Juri (2014), From metropolis to microcosmos : The EU's new standards of civilisation, Article

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso; SÈBE, Berny; MAAS, Gabrielle (ed/s), (2015), Echoes of empire : memory, identity and colonial legacies, Book

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2009), Southern barbarians? : a post-colonial critique of EUniversalism, Contribution to book

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2022), Keynote SoU Lecture 'A Europe fit for the next generation?', Video

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2021), Differentiation, dominance and democratic congruence : a relational view, Working Paper

View more Research Output

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Kalypso Nicolaidis is Chair in Global Affairs at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI), where inter alia she convenes the EUI Democracy Forum. She is currently on leave from the University of Oxford and was professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Ecole Nationale d'Admistration, Paris.

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Global PeaceTech: Unlocking the Better Angels of our Techne  ➡️

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The double-edged nature of technology pervades human history. Today, the potential for peace offered by the internet, social networks, mobile devices, digital identities, AI, blockchain, big data, geospatial information, is matched by the risks of disinformation, polarisation, online violence, surveillance, data privacy, cyber-attacks, and power concentration. Faced with this knife-edge between the bright and dark sides of disruptive technologies, how do we conjure up the better angels of our nature? Many agents for change around the world have sought to employ and regulate new technologies to foster peaceful processes under the aegis of “PeaceTech” initiatives. This paper introduces “Global PeaceTech” as a new field of social inquiry in the context of International Relations and Global Affairs, with the aim of analysing the global context in which these initiatives are embedded and interconnected, in order to draw prescriptive lessons. The deployment of technology for peace entails legal, political, economic, and ethical dilemmas that transcend national borders and require new models of transnational governance. By bringing together the world of “tech-for-good” and the field of international studies broadly defined as the study of patterns of global change, “Global PeaceTech” fills a gap at the intersection between peace studies and global governance and promotes policy innovation at the transnational level. The paper offers an overview of this agenda in four parts: Part I starts from the IR literature and explores the relationship between technology, peace and war. Part II defines the main differences between PeaceTech and Global PeaceTech. Part III sets out a new research agenda in Global PeaceTech, introducing core analytical concepts and research methods, and discussing its potential political and societal impact. In Part IV, we conclude by presenting a series of example of relevant research areas as a reference for further research in Global PeaceTech.

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by Kalypso Nicolaidis and Michele Giovanardi.

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Coordinator of the Global PeaceTech Hub, EUI School of Transnational Governance

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Project Associate at the Global PeaceTech Hub and the STG Chair in AI and Democracy

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This short session will introduce the Global PeaceTech Map, the methods and challenges identified in the categorisation of the PeaceTech initiatives at the global level, and instructions on how to collaborate on the interactive map.

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Global PeaceTech Atlas 2022 - Globalpeacetech

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A mapping of PeaceTech case studies and policy-oriented analyses on the use and regulation of technology for peace at the global level.

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Adjunct Professor of Digital Policy at the EUI School of Transnational Governance. Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID) at CEPS

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Chair in Global Affairs at the EUI School of Transnational Governance

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Biography

Kalypso Nicolaidis is Chair in Global Affairs at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI), where inter alia she convenes the EUI Democracy Forum. She is currently on leave from the University of Oxford and was professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Ecole Nationale d'Admistration, Paris. She has worked with numerous EU institutions, including as a member of the European Council's reflection group on the future of Europe chaired by Felipe González (2008-10), and is a Council member of ECFR. She also served as advisor on European affairs to George Papandreou in the 90s and early 2000s, the Dutch and UK governments, the European Parliament, the European Commission, OECD and UNCTAD.

At the EUI, Professor Nicolaidis teaches courses on 'Transnational Politics and Institutions', 'Responsible Negotiation', 'Transnational Democracy in the XXI Century' and EU-Africa relations as part of STG's master's, executive education and Young African Leaders programmes.
She is co-convener or chair of a number of initiatives at STG and EUI including: the EUI-wide cluster on Democracy in the XXIst century, the EUI Democracy Forum, the STG Transnational Democracy Initiative at STG, and the Global Peace Tech Hub.
She is also engaged in collaborative projects with the Robert Schuman Center, including on 'Democracy in Flux,' 'Europe in the World', the 'Oxford-based Dahrendorf programme', EU external trade and regulatory relations, and the European Governance and Politics Programme. And she participates in the EUI cluster on Eurocentricism and the Decolonizing initiative.

Her research revolves around internal and external aspects of European integration as well as global affairs, theaters of recognition, democratic theory, transnational legal empathy and social solidarity, global governance and international trade, sustainable integration, post-colonialism, myth and politics and the import of new technologies on international relations.
Her last books are: A Citizen's Guide to the Rule of Law - Why We Need to Fight for the Most Precious Human Inventions of All Time (with Adis Merdzanovic, 2021); Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit (2019). 'The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost?', ( with Sternberg and Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Palgrave, 2018) and 'Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies' (edited with Sebe, I.B. Taurus, 2015).

More details on projects and publications can be found on her website: http://kalypsonicolaidis.com.

Research Projects and Working groups

Recent research output

LENZ, Tobias; NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2019), EU-topia? : a critique of the European Union as a model, Article

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso; VERGERIO, Claire; FISHER-ONAR, Nora; VIEHOFF, Juri (2014), From metropolis to microcosmos : The EU's new standards of civilisation, Article

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso; SÈBE, Berny; MAAS, Gabrielle (ed/s), (2015), Echoes of empire : memory, identity and colonial legacies, Book

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2009), Southern barbarians? : a post-colonial critique of EUniversalism, Contribution to book

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2022), Keynote SoU Lecture 'A Europe fit for the next generation?', Video

NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso (2021), Differentiation, dominance and democratic congruence : a relational view, Working Paper

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Kalypso Nicolaidis is Chair in Global Affairs at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI), where inter alia she convenes the EUI Democracy Forum. She is currently on leave from the University of Oxford and was professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Ecole Nationale d'Admistration, Paris.

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Director of the EUI School of Transnational Governance, Chairman of CMI - Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation

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Biography

Professor Alexander Stubb is the Director of the School of Transnational Governance as of 1 May 2020. He has served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland (2008-2016). He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and national parliament (2011-2017). He was the Chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) from 2014 to 2016 and Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2017 to 2020.

Stubb worked as an advisor at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki and Brussels and in President Romano Prodi's team at the European Commission (1995-2004). He was involved in the negotiation of the Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon.

Stubb's background is in academia, civil service and politics. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics, a Master's degree in EU administration from the College of Europe in Bruges, and a B.A. in political science from Furman University in South Carolina. He also studied French language, culture and civilisation at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Between 2000 and 2007, he was a visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Stubb has written numerous books and academic articles on European affairs and publishes columns for several newspapers, including the Financial Times, on a regular basis.

Stubb is also a self-professed sports-nut and avid amateur triathlete.

Recent research output

MC MAHON, Méabh (ed/s), BORRELL FONTELLES, Josep; STUBB, Alexander (2022), Geopolitical order and change of security architecture in Europe, Video

STUBB, Alexander; TASSINARI, Fabrizio (2022), Can Italy maintain its pandemic-era transformation?, Article

STUBB, Alexander; TASSINARI, Fabrizio (2022), Un buongoverno endemico per l'Italia, Article

STUBB, Alexander; TASSINARI, Fabrizio (2022), Can Italy maintain its pandemic-era transformation?, Other

STUBB, Alexander (ed/s), SANNINO, Stefano; SCHWARZER, Daniela; PEEL, Michael (2021), Quo vadis European foreign policy? : a decade of the European external action service, Video

HOLMSTRÖM, Bengt Robert; STUBB, Alexander (2021), "Is Europe falling behind in the global digital economy?" : [conversation between Bengt Holmström and Alexander Stubb], Video

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Professor Alexander Stubb is the Director of the School of Transnational Governance as of 1 May 2020. He has served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland (2008-2016). He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and national parliament (2011-2017).

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18.00-19.30

THE MANY WAYS TO PEACETECH
Selected presentations from the participants

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DEFINING (GLOBAL) PEACETECH
Brief presentations from the Global PeaceTech Hub

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21 November 2022

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