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Dialectiq works in developing system mapping of conflicts and climate strategies to reveal leverage points which policy makers and delivery agencies can use for developing more effective interventions.

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Research institute | AI | Long-term peace

Interdisciplinary and globally distributed AI research institute rooted in the belief that AI is not inevitable, its harms are preventable, and when its production and deployment include diverse perspectives and deliberate processes it can be beneficial.

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Conrad Grebel University College, Westmount Road North, Waterloo, ON

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Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement

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The Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement is a dynamic space on the University of Waterloo campus, home to peace-oriented innovators, and established organizations from the regions vibrant peacebuilding field.

Points of connection to PeaceTech include:
- Supporting research and public policy advocacy on emerging technologies of warfare through an affiliate organization, Project Ploughshares.
- Supporting start-ups that use technology to advance peace and justice through the Grebel Peace Incubator.

The Centre also supports the PeaceTech Living Learning Community for students at Conrad Grebel University College.

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The Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement is a dynamic space on the University of Waterloo campus, home to peace-oriented innovators, and established organizations from the regions vibrant peacebuilding field. The common goal of advancing peace collaboratively and creatively is the lifeblood of the Centre for Peace Advancements unique working community. The Centre for Peace Advancement stands as a bridge between campus and community, academics and practice, and faith and justice.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is a leading hub for innovation on a national and global scale. The University of Waterloo has been consistently ranked as Canada's most innovative university by Maclean's university rankings. UWaterloo operates the world's largest co-operative education program, and now supports a wide array of student entrepreneurship opportunities. In addition to being the home of countless cutting-edge tech companies, our surrounding community has nurtured significant social innovations in areas such as restorative justice, poverty alleviation, and refugee resettlement.

This interactive exhibition features photos of street art pieces from a range of conflict-affected societies and an opportunity to leave your own 'mark'.

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Multistakeholder | Others | Long-term peace | Positive peace

Tech for Democracy is a Danish-led initiative that brings together representatives from governments, multilateral organisations, tech industry and civil society to make technology work for democracy and human rights.

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More than ever, technology is changing the world, transforming how we communicate, inform ourselves and make decisions.

Digital solutions can promote human rights, bring people closer to the decisions that influence their lives and make democratic institutions stronger and more responsive. Yet online, expectations and aspirations for democracy have not fully been met. Digital technologies pose a severe threat to democracies globally and our democratic practices. This calls for joint action.

On 18 November 2021, Denmark held a conference in UN City Copenhagen hosted by Jeppe Kofod, the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Flemming Møller Mortensen, Minister for Development Cooperation to kick-start a multistakeholder dialogue on the challenges in the intersection between tech, democracy and human rights. The conference marks the launch of a year of action during which Denmark is determined to make ideas, intentions and visions translate into concrete actions and solutions.

Explore this website to learn more about what is happening in the Tech for Democracy space, and ways to join the efforts to make tech work for democracy and human rights.

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More than ever, technology is changing the world, transforming how we communicate, inform ourselves and make decisions. Digital solutions can promote human rights, bring people closer to the decisions that influence their lives and make democratic institutions stronger and more responsive. Yet online, expectations and aspirations for democracy have not fully been met.

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The GIS 4 Peace initiative seeks to provide an open, centralized location where peacebuilders and community audiences can access public data, GIS tools for innovation, and the wider peacebuilding community.

As we empower peacebuilders with spatial data and tools, this hub will promote the following:

Community Participation

Bolstered Innovation

Improved Accessibility

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Discover, analyze and download data from GIS 4 Peace. Download in CSV, KML, Zip, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF or PNG. Find API links for GeoServices, WMS, and WFS. Analyze with charts and thematic maps. Take the next step and create StoryMaps and Web Maps.

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Our mission is to foster the use of data science for positive social impact. We train and support a new generation of data scientists, provide direct support to nonprofits, and develop tools that ensure data science and artificial intelligence are used to positively and equitably benefit people all over the world.

We have a wide range of initiatives designed to create impact: from training data scientists, governments, and non profits to work on social impact projects, to developing tools for ethical and responsible AI, to connecting social good organizations with data science needs and volunteers who can help them.

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We have a wide range of initiatives designed to create impact: from training data scientists, governments, and non profits to work on social impact projects, to developing tools for ethical and responsible AI, to connecting social good organizations with data science needs and volunteers who can help them.

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Data Science for Sustainable Development

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Data Science for Sustainable Development

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Data Science for Sustainable Development (DSSD) is a 501(c)3 certified nonprofit. We are committed to providing technical services to nonprofits, government agencies, and companies working in development and social impact with limited technological resources and capacity. We aim to foster innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration, open-source technical knowledge, and the desire to provide solutions to humanitarian and development practitioners.

We aim to connect aspiring data scientists, geospatial scientists, software engineers to develop products, methodologies, and creative ideas for social impact challenges. We aim to build a network that raises future leaders in sustainable development. We partner organizations, companies, and academic institutions to tackle the technical and ethical challenges in sustainable development through data.

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The CyberPeace Institute is an independent and neutral nongovernmental organization whose mission is to ensure the rights of people to security, dignity and equity in cyberspace. The Institute works in close collaboration with relevant partners to reduce the harms from cyberattacks on people’s lives worldwide. By analyzing cyberattacks, the Institute exposes their societal impact, how international laws and norms are being violated, and advances responsible behavior to enforce cyberpeace.

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The CyberPeace Institute is a Geneva based organization protecting the most vulnerable in cyberspace. Independent and neutral, the Institute investigates and analyzes the human impact of systemic cyber threats, delivers free cybersecurity assistance, tracks the enforcement of international laws and norms and forecasts threats to Cyberpeace.

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CyberPeace Institute The CyberPeace Institute is a Geneva based organization protecting the most vulnerable in cyberspace. Independent and neutral, the Institute investigates and analyzes the human impact of systemic cyber threats, delivers free cybersecurity assistance,

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Non-governmental organisation | Europe | Finland | Mix of technologies | Short-term peace | Peacemaking |

Building on CMI’s experience in peacemaking and existing trust built with conflict stakeholders through years of engagement in conflict resolution, CMI aims to introduce digital technologies in peacemaking processes to complement traditional methods.

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Middle East and North Africa

CMI's programme is focused on making meaningful contributions to peace processes in four regions - the Middle East and North Africa, Eurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. A strong focus on women's participation and gender-specific aspects of conflict is extensively integrated into all parts of CMI work.

Today's violent conflicts tend to be highly complex. They have wide regional impact and involve multiple actors and a diverse array of political interests. In such conflicts, unofficial conflict resolution actors like CMI have some important advantages over official bodies. Independent organisations bring to the negotiating table not only their own wealth of experience and expertise, but also opportunities that are not always open to state-related bodies. And as an independent, conflict resolution organisation with Finnish origins, CMI has the added benefit of being truly impartial and without a power agenda of its own and is thus able to work in the most challenging regions in the world. Each context and conflict is unique - they involve different factors, actors and dynamics. Similarly processes to resolve them are also unique.

Women are the largest group affected by violent conflicts and yet systematically excluded from their resolution. This reality is recognized by the international community , but real change on the ground is slow to come. Gender equality and inclusivity are core operating principles of CMI. In our work, we strive to highlight the indispensable role of women in building and sustaining peace, and aim to widen the space for women to participate in peace processes. If we miss out on half of the population in efforts to resolve conflicts, we miss opportunities for a better peace.

Promoting women's role in peace processes

One of the key principles guiding CMI's work is inclusivity.

In 2000, the United Nations adopted a ground-breaking Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the first of eight such resolutions recognising women's rights as indispensable to international peace and security. Despite these normative advances, women and their views are still gravely underrepresented in peace processes worldwide. CMI works to change this reality by supporting women in conflict-affected countries to access and influence peace processes; and by enhancing inclusive and gender-sensitive mediation capacities.
Inclusivity as a key principle
Inclusivity is one of CMI's core operating principles. We highlight the importance of women's participation in building and sustaining peace, and work to create a greater role for women in peace processes. Concretely, we do this by supporting women from diverse social and political backgrounds in conflict-affected countries to come together and build consensus on the issues that matter to them, and to advance these priorities in conflict resolution processes. For instance, in Libya CMI supports an informal working group of civil society leaders to advance key issues concerning women in the country's transition to peace and stability.
Advancing gender-sensitive mediation
Another way CMI advances inclusivity in conflict resolution is by promoting gender-sensitive mediation. One of our goals is to make it standard practice for gender considerations to be included in all stages of peace processes and subsequent agreements.

CMI promotes a nuanced understanding of gender in peace and conflict, and supports mediators in tackling these issues in practice. An important part of our work in this regard is our annual High-Level Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation, organised in partnership with United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) and the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO).

Read our article on debunking the myths about gender in peace mediation here.
CMI works with women mediator networks
CMI is an operational partner of the Nordic Women Mediators, a growing network of peace and security professionals that aims to advance the inclusion of women at all levels of peace processes from grassroots efforts to high-level negotiations. In this capacity, CMI also supports the collaboration between regional women mediator networks across the globe. These networks play a role in promoting inclusive conflict resolution practices and mobilising support to women in ongoing peace processes.

Read more about the network and other partner organisations here.

CMI supports women's role in conflict resolution and peace processes

CMI contributes to gender-sensitive and inclusive mediation practice by providing tools and strategies to mediators and peace support actors

CMI contributes to the development of the field of peace mediation in three ways: i) the cumulative lessons learned from CMI's experience in different contexts and themes, ii) the expertise and experience of President Ahtisaari as a leading global mediator, and iii) CMI's partnerships in the international peacemaking community, convening platforms and dialogue with peer organisations, governments, think tanks and international and regional organisations. Within this focus, special effort is made in seeking complementarity with Finnish efforts to support the international peacemaking community, and in seeking innovations for joint development with other actors.

CMI's focus on policy and learning is aimed at creating positive feedback loops between thematic topics identified and informed by CMI's work and learning from key national, regional, and international actors. These topics are based on CMI's internal learning mechanisms, centred on internal reviews and critical friend practices, combined with CMI access, networks and analysis. Selected topics are certain to develop further in accordance with local dynamics and emerging trends.

Compared to other humanitarian actors, peacemakers have been slow in adopting digital technologies in their work. Yet, in the digital era, mastering the use of digital tools while preventing and mitigating their negative impact will be essential for the success of peacemakers. Not leveraging their potential would constitute an opportunity loss, while not addressing their use to exacerbate conflict would constitute a blind spot. At CMI, we identified digital peacemaking as one of our thematic priorities and thus aim to pave the way to better equip the modern peacemaker.
Digital Peacemaking at a Glance
Digital technologies are playing an increasingly important role in exacerbating conflicts and in the conduct of peacemaking, thus creating new risks and opportunities for peacemakers. On the one hand, not only can digital technologies be used to fuel tensions through the conduct of cyber-attacks or the dissemination of hate speech and disinformation, but they can also be used to derail dialogue processes through the leaks of sensitive information or the targeting of participants. On the other hand, peacetech - or digital technologies designed to support peacemaking efforts - can, inter alia, be used to better understand conflict, to render peace processes more inclusive, to better communicate about a process, to increase the security of exchanges between participants or to enable more efficient collaboration between conflict stakeholders.
More than Tech for Peace
Although the use of digital technologies for peacemaking has alarming downsides, mastering their use bears many benefits. In addition to opening new avenues for peacemaking in practice, the use of digital technologies may have a positive impact on other, cross-cutting issues, by improving inclusion and lowering environmental impact. For example, digital technologies can help identify and integrate conflict stakeholders' views and interests in an ongoing or upcoming process, overcome logistical challenges preventing some from participating, better inform conflict stakeholders and reduce the costs of consultations. Furthermore, as virtual dialogue becomes more common, the use of digital technologies may lead to reductions in travel-related CO2 emissions, which constitute a significant share of the emissions generated through peacemaking.
Our Approach
Building on CMI's experience in peacemaking and existing trust built with conflict stakeholders through years of engagement in conflict resolution, CMI aims to introduce digital technologies in peacemaking processes to complement traditional methods. The implementation of new technologies is always a response to a practical need identified by peacemakers and we therefore work in close collaboration with such actors to support their work. Furthermore, aligned with CMI's key principle of inclusivity, we aim to leverage the potential of digital technologies to increase the inclusivity of peace processes and contribute to gender equality. Lastly, in order to succeed in digital peacemaking, we collaborate closely with Finnish and international organisations and technology companies to tap into the technological expertise necessary for the development of suitable digital solutions.
Shaping the Future of Digital Peacemaking
Strengthening the integration of digital technologies in CMI's operations and driving change within the industry constitutes the logical continuation of work the organisation started back in 2004 with its first exploration of digital technologies. In addition to benefitting from an established track record in using digital solutions, CMI is building on a strong network of partners in the technology, innovation and cybermediation sectors. CMI is a member of the CyberMediation Network, which aims to inform mediation practitioners about the impact of digital technologies on mediation. CMI also works in close collaboration with a rich set of actors, from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UNDPPA). With the support from and proximity with a very rich and innovative technology and start-up sector in Finland, the organisation finds itself well-placed to position itself as a leader in digital peacemaking.

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Think tank | Oceania | Australia | Data governance | Mix of technologies | Mix of peace types|

The Institute for Economics and Peace aims to create a paradigm shift in the way the world thinks about peace. They do this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analysing country level risk and fragility, and understanding Positive Peace.

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Institute for Economics and Peace - Analysing peace and quantifying its economic value

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Measuring peace at the global and national level allows us to assess the social, political and economic factors that create peace. Each year the Institute for Economics and Peace produces the Global Peace Index, the world's leading measure of national ...

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International organisation | Global | Mix of technologies | Long-term peace |

UNICEF's Innovation Fund invests in early stage, open-source, emerging technology digital public goods with the potential to impact children on a global scale. It also provides product and technology assistance, support with business growth, access to a network of experts and partners to allow for scale and growth.

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International organisation | Global | Mix of technologies | Long-term peace |

UNICEF's Office of Innovation accelerates solutions to build a better world with and for children.

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Innovating for children

Now, more than ever, innovation is critical to building a better world with and for children. We must do more collectively, we must act faster together, to design, use and scale truly transformational solutions for every child to thrive.

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The Office of Innovation uses technology to address the biggest challenges facing children today.

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Non-profit organisation | Europe | Germany | Mix of peace types | Mix of technologies |

The Berghof Foundation is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organisation supporting people in conflict in their efforts to achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

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The Berghof Approach

While conflict is inevitable, violence is not. We bring people in conflict together, creating space for conflict transformation.

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Academia / civil society | Europe | Italy | Open internet| Platforms and services |  Data governance | Short and long-term peace |

EDMO brings together fact-checkers, media literacy experts, and academic researchers to understand and analyse disinformation, in collaboration with media organisations, online platforms and media literacy practitioners.

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The European University Institute (EUI) is a distinctly international postgraduate teaching and research institute in the social sciences. The EUI relies on the expertise of its School of Transnational Governance and Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom for the coordination of EDMO.

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Academic institution | Europe | Italy | Mix | Long-term peace |

Global PeaceTech is hub for researchers, peacebuilders, tech companies and change makers to investigate the role of technology in building peace across borders. It is based in the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute.

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Civil society | Africa | Uganda | Data governance | Long-term peace |

Pollicy is a feminist collective of technologists, data scientists, creatives and academics working at the intersection of data, design and technology to craft better life experiences by harnessing improved data.

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Analog to Digital: The reality of life for many people in Kampala is reflected through the data + art from...

Four years ago, If you had asked me to participate in a discussion about data, I would have shied away from it. Like many, we...

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NGO | Global | Mix of technologies | Short and long-term peace |

Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. By combining direct technical support, comprehensive policy engagement, global advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, legal interventions, and convenings such as RightsCon, they fight for human rights in the digital age.

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Non-profit organization | US and Europe | AI/Machine Learning | Long-term peace | Acceptance of the rights of Others |

AIMS built the first exploration of the application of machine learning to automate the analysis of statements produced by businesses under the UK Modern Slavery Act to boost compliance and help combat and eradicate modern slavery.

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Civil society  | South-Africa | South Africa | AI/Machine Learning | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

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Civil Society | North-America | US | Data verification | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

It focus on documenting the less publicized daily abuses by police, such as illegal searches, racial profiling and harassment.

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We are excited to share these materials co-developed by WITNESS and Berkeley Copwatch. Continue reading below for more information about this project and a Q&A with Berkeley Copwatch, or jump to the Resources section to download the Planning Workbook, Database Template, Data Dictionary and more. Check out related articles and guidance on documenting police abuse in our, Caught on Camera: Police Violence in the U.S. project.

Introduction

For the past 30 years, the community-based police monitoring group, Berkeley Copwatch (BCW), has been filming police misconduct and serving as a hub for people to gain valuable Know Your Rights information and report abuses by law enforcement. As a volunteer-led group that represents a broad range of ages, abilities, LGBTQ folxs, unhoused individuals, students and local organizers, they have been instrumental in collecting footage and documentation to support legal, advocacy and policy initiatives. Their work has also helped create a rich record of community-led initiatives around issues like gentrification, racism and abusive policing against vulnerable populations like the unhoused community and people living with mental health issues.

Over the past few years, videos of police using excessive force in the United States, including the police killings of Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Walter Scott-to name a few-have brought police abuse into the national media spotlight. But despite the conversations, widespread mobilizations and calls for justice that have ensued, little progress has been made in changing the violence, racism and lack of transparency within our law enforcement systems.

While groups like Berkeley Copwatch are well positioned to expose this type of egregious violence, they also focus on documenting the less publicized daily abuses by police, such as illegal searches, racial profiling and harassment. Videos of these incidents are less likely to make headline news, but careful tracking over time enables advocates to identify officers that are especially problematic, as well as policies that discriminate against and cause harm to community members. The group's methodical and long-term approach to documentation can impact not just individual cases, but can also deepen our understanding of how these issues play out over time within a community, and systemically within a police department. These efforts are crucial in continuing to speak out against police misconduct, providing support to families and communities affected by this violence, and helping coordinate demands for greater transparency, accountability and finding alternatives to relying on the police.

Yet, maintaining decades of sensitive documentation in an all volunteer-run organization comes with many complications and difficulties. Berkeley Copwatch is made up of folxs with a wide range of tech abilities, living within a community that is seeing a rapid expansion of gentrification alongside increasingly aggressive police tactics. One major challenge is finding low-cost, secure and sustainable models for collecting, organizing, preserving and curating human rights documentation so it can be used for evidentiary and advocacy purposes. We've spoken with a number of other police accountability groups across the U.S. who are facing these hurdles, and they are issues we previously explored in our Profiling the Police project with El Grito de Sunset Park in Brooklyn, NY. Groups collecting documentation of political violence and war crimes in places like Argentina, Syria, Burma and West Papua have expressed grappling with these challenges as well.

While there is no easy solution to resolving these issues, WITNESS has spent the past two years collaborating with Berkeley Copwatch around the development of a People's Database and archive. The objective of this project has been to streamline their workflows, develop important protocols and policies for users, and strengthen their platforms for collecting, organizing and analyzing data in ways that make the information more useful to individuals, lawyers, journalists and advocates. This Database is not intended to be put online or made public because of privacy and security issues. Rather it serves as an internal resource for the group, and the information will be used for organizing purposes and shared with trusted sources and community members upon request.

We are deeply grateful to the immense amounts of time and energy that Berkeley Copwatch volunteers have invested in this project and heartened by the ways these tools have already had an impact on campaigns to get problematic officers fired and influence policy decisions around emergency mental health response. Read more about the group's history and how they're using the database in the Q&A below.

Watch this short video about the People's Database!

What's Next?

The Database will continue to grow and evolve over time. We built these tools with the objective of strengthening collaborations between police accountability groups and supporting others to use and adapt the materials in their human rights documentation work. To further those efforts we're planning to:

Collaborate with designers and open source developers to enhance the Database usability and look of the interface

Host a series of webinars and group conversations about the resources

Share these materials and learnings in different organizing, academic and conference spaces

If you use or adapt these resources, please let us know so we can continue to share them and understand how they are being put into action!

If you would like to get involved, learn more or support these efforts, get in touch with berkeleycopwatch [@] yahoo.com or check the Berkeley Copwatch Facebook page for regular updates.

Q&A with Berkeley Copwatch

The use of a database is crucial to moving the work of copwatch-type groups forward. We are less able to influence behavior with the mere presence of a recording device. We have to make good on our commitment to hold police accountable. We have to document their abuses and ensure that these deeds follow them throughout their career.

Q: What is Copwatch? How did Berkeley Copwatch (BCW) get started?

Berkeley Copwatch is the original "Copwatch" group that began in 1990 in the area along Telegraph Avenue, just south of the UC Berkeley campus. In response to flyers and word of mouth invitations, students, homeless people, activists and neighbors gathered to create a united response to stop abuses by individual officers as well as confront the forces of gentrification that were converging on our neighborhood. The main goal of Copwatch was to empower our community to stop abuse by police. This requires two main objectives: holding police accountable and fostering alternatives to police. Over the past three decades, we have practiced, developed and shared our approach to holding police accountable, taught thousands of people how to copwatch safely and challenged unjust or abusive police policies and practices that we observed. Our approach relies exclusively on local, volunteer participation to directly monitor and report on police activity and police encounters with the public. Over time, our approach has become less dependent on individual on-site resistance to police misconduct beyond documentation, and more reliant on our ability to access evidence that we can produce quickly and use strategically after the incident is "over". As we celebrate the 30th year of Berkeley Copwatch, we are elated to know that there are similar groups all across the nation and on at least three continents. (Our plans for an international Copwatch Gathering have been delayed until Spring 2021, but we are determined to gather copwatchers from across the U.S. and beyond. See www.berkeleycopwatch.org for updates.)

Q: Why is creating a database and archive important for BCW?

As Copwatch matured, it was clear that we needed to raise the standard of information that we gathered and our ability to use it in support of various policy campaigns. We needed to be able to find the footage and aggregate incidents in order to demonstrate patterns of abuse. In addition, we were moving away from the idea that we could shame or change a police department by finding one high profile, outrageous incident that would somehow cause the transformation of the department. We realized that people in our city also suffered from the less dramatic, but still impactful daily abuses such as illegal searches, punitive destruction of property, racial profiling, illegal towing, as well as instances of unnecessary force and more. These patterns of enforcement required that we be able to substantiate our concerns with aggregated footage/data and be able to gather all of this information together in an organized and comprehensive way, sometimes quickly.

Q: What impact has the database had on your advocacy work so far?

One example is the way we've been able to influence policy discussions of the Berkeley Mental Health Commission by working with various commissioners to show them footage of police use of spit hoods and the police role in mental health emergencies. Beyond collecting documentation, we have taken action by demonstrating against spit hoods at City Council meetings and calling for a full ban on the dehumanizing and sometimes fatal use of this tactic. Another example of how it's supported our work is the case of a UC Berkeley cop, Sean Aranas, who abused homeless people for years was spotlighted in our compilation of many separate incidents of his gross misconduct. He "retired" within two months of the release of our footage. As noted in the Oakland Reporter, "While Aranas was considered particularly problematic among many homeless people in Berkeley, advocates see his actions as part of a broader pattern of hostility toward homeless people by city and university police, one driven in part by local business owners." Without a plan for the organization of our footage, it simply rests quietly and uselessly on a hard drive somewhere. We believe that we have created a user friendly way to collect, maintain and retrieve information as we need it.

Q: In what ways have you been able to engage the broader community with the database?

Berkeley Copwatch has always worked to engage the student body around issues relevant to the community that exists off campus. Since the founding of Copwatch 30 years ago, Andrea Prichett has trained generations of student facilitators for the course entitled, "Copwatch: Community-Based Police Accountability". The course begins with a Know-Your-Rights Training, then delves into the history of policing as rooted in white supremacy and derived from slave patrols, and continues with a critical analysis of contemporary, local, and international issues related to policing. The Copwatch course also requires students to participate in at least three copwatch shifts, in which experienced volunteers accompany students and community members to film the police. Every semester, Copwatch also gets a few new volunteers from among the students in the course.
In addition to offering an accredited university course for students, Berkeley Copwatch partnered with Dr. Nikki Jones' Criminal Justice in the Community course to engage students in the process of community-based police accountability. The class of over 80 undergraduates at UC Berkeley worked in small groups to analyze Copwatch footage from the early 2000s. Using an online version of the database developed in AirTable, students recorded incident information, identified officers in the videos, and helped Copwatch troubleshoot the Controlled Vocabulary and Data Dictionary. Ultimately, Copwatch volunteers will transfer the data from the AirTable to the database, which has identical input information. In their reflections, students were excited about the potential of the database as a tool for community-based police accountability, and many described how useful the platform would be for the communities they grew up in.

Students in both courses gain knowledge of their rights when encountering the police, and of the appropriate tactics to copwatch safely. Whenever we run into former students, the first thing they do is tell us about the latest incident that they copwatched! We encourage former, current, and curious students to send us whatever copwatching footage they collect around the city.

Q: How were you organizing your materials before this project? What are some of the biggest challenges you've encountered?

In 1993, the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) provided Berkeley Copwatch with a floppy disc that had a version of a database in FileMaker Pro format on it. Over time, it became clear that there were too many obstacles to making that database work. Back then, we were using VHS tapes, then to DVD and the mini-DVD, etc. These analogue versions required a lot of volunteer labor to review and label. We could not customize that database to meet our unique needs. The analogue tapes were sometimes renumbered by eager, new volunteers and the incident reports no longer reliably connected to the footage of a particular incident. Volunteers stopped using the database, and our ability to produce recorded information became increasingly dependent on the individual copwatcher's memory to locate it and less on an internal protocol. This is problematic when you are trying to locate evidence from an incident that happened two years ago but is going to trial next week. Requests for information went unanswered many times because we were not able to locate the information quickly enough. The biggest challenge in creating this kind of a database was that the people with the technical expertise had to really understand how Copwatchers gather data in order to create a relevant database with protocols that worked easily into the ecology of copwatching as done by both short and long term volunteers. Of course it was extremely challenging to account for the various levels of technical sophistication within the group, provide in-service training to volunteer copwatchers so we could use the system and then hold ourselves accountable to implementing or changing the protocols that we all had a hand in developing.

Q: What would you share with other groups interested in developing community-centered archives and databases?

The use of a database is crucial to moving the work of copwatch-type groups forward. We are less able to influence behavior with the mere presence of a recording device. We have to make good on the threat to hold police accountable. We have to document their abuses and ensure that these deeds follow them throughout their career. We may not get justice in a complaint process or even in court, but a collection of footage that is accessible to the public and contains information on individual officers' histories as well as cataloged footage that demonstrates the impact of specific police practices is a solid first step. We need to get around the lack of transparency and disclosure in how departments release information to the public. We need to infuse copwatching with renewed purpose and value by connecting each person who stops to watch with a place to send their footage so we can preserve it and gather it with related incidents and use it strategically. There was a tremendous amount of work involved in setting up this system, and we still have a long way to go. We have already used our newly curated footage in justice campaigns.

Project Goals

This work has been customized to fit the needs of Berkeley Copwatch, but we believe these tools can help Copwatch and other human rights monitoring groups in developing a data management system of their own. Hopefully, other community based accountability projects will benefit from the years of informed practice and careful consideration that went into the design of these tools and also feel able to adapt them to be useful in their own cultural, economic and geographic situation and location.

Some of our top objectives for this project were:

Creating a customized database that could meet the diverse needs and user types within the organization

Using tools that were low-cost, accessible and as secure as possible

Documenting our learnings and processes so we could share them with other groups working on similar issues

Process Summary

Our team for this project was made up of archivists, activists, grassroots organizers and students with a wide range of technical experience and familiarity with using databases. We started by understanding the overall needs and challenges that Berkeley Copwatch was facing and how they collect, enter and use data and footage. We workshopped what questions they envisioned being able to "ask" the database, as this would inform how we would structure the database and design its user interface. For example, we determined that Berkeley Copwatch wanted to be able to query details about individual incidents, but also wanted to be able to look into the history of each officer who was involved in an incident. Using this assessment, we mapped out a metadata structure that could be realized in whatever database platform or application we decided to use, then we sat with it, and mapped it out some more.

Andrea Prichett of Berkeley Copwatch reflected on this process,

" In order to answer the question of 'what did we want to 'ask' the database?', our group had to look inward and be mindful of what we wanted to focus our efforts on as copwatch. We had to review our core beliefs and goals. When we were able to answer 'what we wanted to focus on' as an organization, then we better understood what questions or what information we wanted to be able to 'ask' the database. That has guided our approach to the design of the database from our POV."

While it is proprietary and not free, FileMakerPro ended up being the best option for a database app for the group because it has a one-time cost ($540 for an individual license) and is user-friendly and highly customizable. It also has a large and diverse user base, so there is a lot of documentation and many online user forums. For security purposes, we chose to keep the data offline by having the database live on a dedicated computer with dedicated local hard drives for video and document storage, plus several backup drives. While there are instances where it would be helpful to have this database run and data stored on a cloud or more distributed system, ultimately the group chose to prioritize security and cost over using a corporate owned cloud service like Google or Amazon.

As the technical aspects of the project were coming together, Berkeley Copwatch spent time cleaning up old data and discussing policies around what information is collected, how long it is stored, and the importance of creating guidance and documentation for the many volunteers that would be using the platform. From these conversations we began drafting a:

User-handbook, outlining things like internal protocol for using the database, what content to accept and what not to, and ethical and security considerations

Controlled vocabulary, which is a list of agreed-upon terms that you use in a database, like in dropdown lists

Data dictionary, which is like a map or rulebook for what the different data elements mean and how to enter them in a database

Throughout this process we spent a lot of time brainstorming, testing, tinkering, re-trying and re-evaluating. There were times that we felt stumped by things like metadata relationships, how to define key terms and how to best organize media folders. But there have also been big and small successes as we came to a consensus on the way forward, as workflows fell into place, or as officers' profiles evolved to contain photo galleries and badge number histories-demonstrating their ascendence within a department over time. These materials are a work in progress, and likely always will be as needs change, volunteers cycle through and policing tactics evolve.

Watch this introductory webinar by Berkeley Copwatch and WITNESS to learn more about the database and collaboration (you can also download the PowerPoint presentation here).

Guidance & Downloadable Resources

A note about using these materials

The resources below were customized to fit the needs of Berkeley Copwatch. We are sharing them "as is" in the hopes that they can serve as a strong foundation for other copwatch groups and human rights monitors to tailor and adapt for the particulars of their work. These materials are Version 1.0 and we will update these materials when new content or versions are available. We did not to publish the Berkeley Copwatch user-guide because it contains sensitive information about their policies. To learn more or contact us about this project, please get in touch at berkeleycopwatch [@] yahoo.com.

Getting Started Workbook

The needs for starting a database project will differ for every group and depend on the available resources, capacity and scale of the project. Needs can range from acquiring specific technical equipment to making time for intensive conversations around ethics, security and objectives. Below is a short list of some of the tech items that are useful to have, as well as a downloadable workbook to help guide you through some of the nuanced conversations you should plan to engage in as a group.

Technical needs for collecting and storing footage and documentation:

Hard drives for storing/backing up video footage

Cables and adapters to enable uploading footage from cell phones

To use this database template, we recommend you have:

FileMaker Pro (If this isn't an option, you can try using a spreadsheet or adapting the data models below in another platform of your choosing)

Someone who is familiar with or willing to learn FileMaker Pro

Data Dictionary

Controlled Vocabulary

Guidance for volunteers on how to use the database and protocol for adding new content

This downloadable planning workbook is a useful first step for planning a database project. It provides guidance and examples for:

Developing collection and retention policies

Guidance on ethics and consent

Developing verification protocol

Legal and security considerations

This workbook comes from our Profiling the Police project and Activists' Guide to Developing Databases Toolkit , a collaboration between WITNESS and El Grito de Sunset Park. This project served as an important foundation for our work with Berkeley Copwatch.

Download Workbook

Data Model

The diagrams below illustrate the structure of the Berkeley Copwatch database (e.g. the tables, fields or elements, and the relationships between tables), which can be implemented in any relational database application. You can also adapt this model to suit your own needs. When designing a data model, consider what questions you want to "ask" the database, and what information you want to get out of the database. Also, be realistic about what data you can actually access or create. This will inform what data you include, how that data is structured and will help ensure you don't include a lot of tables and fields that are required to fill out but don't serve your goals.

Learn more about working with metadata and data models in the Metadata section of our or check out our presentation on Activists' Guide to Creating Video Databases, Databases & Data Models 101.

For simplicity, many calculated fields that are used in the BCW database are not shown here since they derive from other fields and exist only for display purposes in the database. For example, in the Officer table, a "Full name" field calculated from "First name" + "Middle initial" + "Last name" fields is not included in this diagram. Administrative fields like "Record created date" are also not included here.

BCW Data Model Diagram

FileMaker Pro Template

Below is a Filemaker Pro file (.fmp12) based on the People's Database that can be used as a "starter solution" template, or basis for adaptation, by others. It includes all of the tables, relationships, and fields used in the People's Database (but no records), and various layouts/interfaces for entering, searching, and viewing your own data. We are offering this template "as is" and can't guarantee that everything will work perfectly.

Using the Template

You need to have Filemaker Pro installed on your computer in order to open/use this file.

To access the template, use login "admin" with no password.

You can access Filemaker's documentation and various online forums- also, just Googling "Filemaker" and the information you're looking for usually returns useful answers.

Download FMP Template

Watch our short video walkthrough of the database:

Data Dictionary & Controlled Vocabulary

To support the Berkeley Copwatch volunteers in using the database and to ensure as much consistent data entry as possible, we created a Data Dictionary and Controlled Vocabulary that outline what data is included, how it is structured and how it is defined.

We originally created this document using Dropbox Paper and are making the public downloadable version available as a PDF and Word file.

What are these and how are they used?

A data dictionary is basically a rulebook for what data is included in your database, how it is structured, how it is entered, and how it is allowed to be accessed. Just like a regular dictionary, each database field has an entry in the data dictionary, with a clear definition and rules. Data dictionaries are essential for building and using databases, especially when multiple people are involved. A database designer or administrator, for example, will use the data dictionary to set-up tables and fields correctly in a database app, while catalogers will use the data dictionary to make sure they enter information consistently for each record.

A controlled vocabulary is a set of words/terms whose meanings and uses are agreed-upon by your group so that you can catalog and find information efficiently and consistently. You need controlled vocabularies, for example, in order to create dropdown lists in your database. What terms do you want to include or exclude in each dropdown list? Moreover, what does each term mean? This is important because people entering information into the database need to be able to select the right one to describe an incident, and someone researching in the database needs to know what search terms will return the information they are looking for.

Download Data Dictionary + Controlled Vocabulary (PDF)
Download Data Dictionary + Controlled Vocabulary (.DOCX)

We would like to thank Community Archives Consultant, Robin Margolis, for his insights, efforts and enthusiasm for this project.

WITNESS is deeply grateful to the immense amounts of time, energy and care that Berkeley Copwatch volunteers have put into this project, especially Andrea Prichett, Stephanie Maurer and Peyton Provenzano.

We would also like to thank El Grito de Sunset Park, whose guidance and partnership on the Profiling the Police project served as a crucial foundation for this work.

Berkeley Copwatch would like to thank the WITNESS team for their steady guidance and endless support. "We know that their help has elevated the quality of what we do and we believe that this detail and consideration given to each aspect of how the database will be used and the potential challenges to its implementation have made a tool that really could be a game changer in the struggle for justice and police accountability."

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The STOP APP can be downloaded onto any smart phone, eg. from Apple's App Store or Google Play for Android. When searching for The STOP APP, Android users will need to search 'the stop app end trafficking' and Apple users 'The stop app end human trafficking' to find it.

We want anybody to use it: activists, members of the public who see or hear of something suspicious, NGOs, even police/immigration officers. Anybody who has reason to believe they have witnessed something.

NO! If you have information about a crime happening now, or it is clear that someone is at risk, you should tell the authorities first and STOP THE TRAFFIK second. There will be times where the individual may not trust the local authorities and will choose to act differently but that is for them to decide not for us to direct them.

Users can write as much or as little information as they feel comfortable with sharing in the open text box. Information that is particularly useful in any case is a summary of the incident, the type of exploitation, location of exploitation and gender of individuals involved.

There are also options to include a photo and or a video you may feel is relevant, instead or as well as the text.

The first thing a user sees when they open The STOP APP is a page of information about safety and usage. It encourages the user to hide The STOP APP amongst other apps on their phone and to use it in a secure place.

The user can make the report anonymously and there will be no record of the report submitted on the user's phone. The user should only input the data when they are in a safe place away from the suspected incident.

Another good question. The Centre for Intelligence Led Prevention is a project within STOP THE TRAFFIK. STT is a UK registered charity and is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner in the UK. We will always abide by European data protection law and we have legally reviewed written policies that set out how we do this. We will only share information with organisations that operate to equivalent standards and in particular

No personal data will be shared with any organisation or business unless a data sharing agreement, compliant with European law, is in place.

No personal data will be shared with a UK law enforcement agency without appropriate judicial authority.

No personal data will be shared with a law enforcement agency outside of the UK except where that agency has sought and obtained judicial authority in the context of internationally recognized mutual legal assistance provisions. In practice this means that, under judicial authority, personal data would be provided only through the intervention of a UK court.

Where we have reason to believe that any data-sharing request would result directly or indirectly in harm to an individual that request will be declined.

All exchanges of personal data will be specifically authorised by a competent officer within STOP THE TRAFFIK.

When data is entered into the app it is sent to and held in a secure layer of the Cloud accessible only to STOP THE TRAFFIK. We then turn the raw data into intelligence using professional analysts and state-of-the-art analytical tools, which will process it and look for patterns. This will then give us information on human trafficking trends and hotspots in different parts of the world. It will potentially highlight particular businesses or areas that are vulnerable and thus allow for focused action from those trying to address the issue. In some cases, it will identify human traffickers or victims.

We have to be careful to operate within data protection law. We will only give personal information to organisations that have signed a data sharing agreement with us to ensure they meet the appropriate data protection standards. We will only give information to a law enforcement agency where there is a court order in place and when we believe it is safe and appropriate to do so.

The App encourages the user to report such incidents immediately to the authorities. At the same time, we will have a system in a place in which relevant organisations and authorities will be contacted so that appropriate action can be taken if we deem it necessary to do so for that particular situation.

STOP THE TRAFFIK is a charity registered in the UK. The Centre for Intelligence Led Prevention is paid for primarily through charitable donations to STOP THE TRAFFIK.

Many of the professional staff supporting the Centre work without charge and much of our software and hardware has been provided free by organisation such as IBM who believe in our objectives and want to support us.

Yes, it is. In principle, anybody can ask anybody anything and anybody can tell anybody anything. Where concerns relating to specific jurisdictions have been raised we have sought professional advice to deal with that.

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The STOP APP - Report Human Trafficking - STOP THE TRAFFIK

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Human trafficking is happening in plain sight all around us. Have you ever seen something that looks out of place? Does uncertainty stop you from speaking up? Every human trafficking story, no matter how long or short, whether current or historic, is important and relevant.

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The social Conflict Analysis Database(SCAD)

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The Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) tracks protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict, covering all of Africa, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

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Armed and Social Conflict - The Strauss Center

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The PeaceTech Exchange (PTX) program addresses critical local challenges by equipping community leaders with technology tools and solutions. It allows people to public their situation inline, such as Tahseen went on to use the skills he gained at PTX Iraq to report on the farmers from his local province struggling with the extinction of their crops.

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Predata’s web-based analytics platform provides an array of tools to identify unique patterns in online attention and provide indicators of offline actions.

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The MAR project maintains data on 284 politically active ethnic groups. The centerpiece of the project is a dataset that tracks groups on political, economic, and cultural dimensions. The project also maintains analytic summaries of group histories, risk assessments, and group chronologies for each group in the dataset.

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The humanitarian Data Exchange includes datasets mainly on Covid-19 and Ukraine Data.

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The Tech Corner provides datasets with Machine Learning, database deduplication, principled data processing and multiple system estimation.

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The HRDAG Tech Corner is where we collect the deeper and geekier content that we create for the website. Click the accordion blocks below to reveal each of the Tech Corner entries.

Sifting Massive Datasets with Machine Learning

Processing scanned documents for investigations of police violence

Administrative paperwork generated by abusive regimes have long been an integral component of human rights investigations. Documents obtained through public records law can provide important evidence of state violence as well as the paper trail to demonstrate responsibility for human rights violations. Among the many formats such records can take, scanned and redacted documents saved as PDF files are common, and present unique challenges for data processing. This post reviews the methods and software tools we use to process such collections and get them into an analysis-ready format.

Read the full post here: Processing scanned documents for investigations of police violence.

Indexing selectors from a collection of chat messages

Important evidence about serious human rights abuses may be hidden among a much larger volume of mundane material within the communications and records of the perpetrators. Analysts can't always review all available records because there may be too much of it. It turns out that we can use machine learning to identify the most relevant materials for the analysts to review as they investigate and build a case.

In this post, we describe how we built a model to search hundreds of thousands of text messages from the phones of the perpetrators of a human rights crime. These are short messages, often containing slang, variant spellings, and other unconventional language, most of which are irrelevant to the crime we are investigating. Our solution required modeling for different categories of interest to analysts, and dealing with high levels of sparsity in both labels and features.

Read the full post here: Indexing selectors from a collection of chat messages.

String matching for governorate information in unstructured text

Matching is the process through which we determine which records are about the same individual. HRDAG receives multiple documentations of human rights violations from partner organizations, and there are "overlaps" in the records of violations-where there may be multiple records from one or multiple sources about the same incident. An overlap does not need to be two records that are exact duplicates, and oftentimes is not: One record may list an individual's age as 24, while another record might list it slightly differently at 25, while another record may not have the age field filled in at all, but may include other identifiable information. However, there is a minimum amount of information a record needs to have to be identifiable in the matching process.

Read the full post here: String matching for governorate information in unstructured text.

Database Deduplication

Database Deduplication to Identify Victims of Human Rights Violations

In our work, we merge many databases to figure out how many people have been killed in violent conflict. Merging is a lot harder than you might think.

Many of the database records refer to the same people-the records are duplicated. We want to identify and link all the records that refer to the same victims so that each victim is counted only once, and so that we can use the structure of overlapping records to do multiple systems estimation.

Merging records that refer to the same person is called entity resolution, database deduplication, or record linkage. For definitive overviews of the field, see Scheuren, Herzog, and Winkler, Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques (2007), and Peter Christen, Data Matching: Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection (2012).

Database deduplication has been an active research area in statistics and computer science for decades. If records lack a unique identifier, like a social security number, finding the same person among many records may be hard because records that refer to the same person may have slightly different information. Sometimes names are spelled a little bit differently, sometimes birth or death dates are slightly different, sometimes different people have the same names, and so forth. In our work studying lists of people killed in violent conflicts, the records usually have imprecise information.

Database deduplication is also hard because there can be a lot of records involved. In our work on homicides in Colombia 2003-2011, we processed over 460,000 records. In our current work on Syria, we're managing about 360,000 records. It's a lot of data.

We've written about our database deduplication framework before. In 2013, Jule Krügerwrote this post, Amelia Hoover Green wrote this post, and Anita Gohdes wrote this post.

Database deduplication is so hard that in my five-part post, I'm only going to talk about the first step in record linkage, called blocking or indexing. In blocking, the goal is to reduce the number of records we consider as possible pairs so that we can calculate the likely matches without running for weeks. I show how we reduce the comparisons among the Syria datasets from 65 billion possible pairs of records to about 43 million pairs, a thousand-fold reduction. It's a very geeky post in which I dig into the technical details, link to some of the key academic and applied work in this area, and I show actual code (in python and pandas) that does the work. It's written in the jupyter notebook, which is a computing environment I'm in love with right now. Let's dig in!

Clustering and Solving the Right Problem

In our database deduplication work, we're trying to figure out which records refer to the same person, and which other records refer to different people.

We write software that looks at tens of millions of pairs of records. We calculate a model that assigns each pair of records a probability that the pair of records refers to the same person. This step is called pairwise classification.

However, there may be more than just one pair of records that refer to the same person. Sometimes three, four, or more reports of the same death are recorded.

So once we have all the pairs classified, we need to decide which groups of records refer to the same person; together, the records that refer to a single person are called a cluster.

There may be 1, 2, or lots of records in a cluster. But heres' a complication: if record A matches to record B, and record B matches record C, do all three match (A, B, C)? When you look at the cluster, you'll find that maybe they do, and maybe they don't.
This post explores how we think about clustering, and how we do it in software. Let us know what you think!

Principled Data Processing

The task is a quantum of workflow

This post describes how we organize our work over ten years, twenty analysts, dozens of countries, and hundreds of projects: we start with a task. A task is a single chunk of work, a quantum of workflow. Each task is self-contained and self-documenting; I'll talk about these ideas at length below. We try to keep each task as small as possible, which makes it easy to understand what the task is doing, and how to test whether the results are correct.

In the example I'll describe here, I'm going to describe work from our Syria database matching project, which includes about 100 tasks. I'll start with the first thing we do with files we receive from our partners at the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).
Read the full post here.

.Rproj Considered Harmful

An interactive programming environment, such as RStudio or Jupyter Notebooks, is an indispensable tool for a data analyst. But code prototyped in such environments, left unedited, can be brittle, difficult to maintain, or come to depend on some hidden aspect of the context in which it was developed. Our projects tend to go on for significant amounts of time and involve multiple programmers working in different languages. Furthermore, given the subject matter, we know our calculations and assumptions will be closely scrutinized.

So we aim to produce code that is clear, replicatable across machines and operating systems, and that leaves an easy-to-follow audit trail allowing us to review every step in the data processing pipeline. In this post, we look at several illustrations of how code prototyped in an interactive environment falls short of those standards, and how to effectively make such code production-ready.

Read the full post here: .Rproj Considered Harmful

From Scripts to Projects: Learning A Modular, Auditable And Reproducible Workflow

The file structure of each task is a microcosm of the entire project. Inputs enter the input folder, are acted upon by the code in the src folder, and are output to the output folder. In that same way, projects start with inputs, are acted upon by tasks in the workflow, and are output as results overall. Breaking up work into tasks facilitates the team's collaboration across time zones and programming languages, one task could be performed in Python and another in R and neither analyst would have to even know. The task structure also results in projects which are auditable and reproducible. Anyone looking at the code can determine exactly how output in a given task was produced and anyone working on a task at anytime can pick it up and recreate the same output.

Read the full post here: From Scripts to Projects: Learning A Modular, Auditable And Reproducible Workflow

Multiple Systems Estimation

Using MSE to Estimate Unobserved Events

At HRDAG, we worry about what we don't know. Specifically, we worry about how we can use statistical techniques to estimate homicides that are not observed by human rights groups. Based on what we've seen studying many conflicts over the last 25 years, what we don't know is often quite different from what we do know.

The technique we use most often to estimate what we don't know is called "multiple systems estimation." In this medium-technical post, I explain how to organize data and use three R packages to estimate unobserved events.

Click here for Computing Multiple Systems Estimation in R.

Implementing LCMCR in Stan

Since 2016, HRDAG has used a fully Bayesian technique using latent class models, called LCMCR, with a corresponding R package. On the one hand, the technique is fast and reliable, and has produced useful estimates for HRDAG over the last six years. On the other hand, the heavy optimization combined with the nature of Gibbs sampling makes it difficult to extend the model to accommodate desired future features.

Click here for Implementing LCMCR in Stan.

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The GovLab studies the impact of technology on governing. It partners with public institutions to design, implement and assess innovative ways of using technology to advance more effective and legitimate governing.

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Deepening Our Understanding of How to Govern More Effectively and Legitimately Through Technology

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GDELT uses some of the world's most sophisticated natural language and data mining algorithms, including the world's most powerful deep learning algorithms, to extract more than 300 categories of events, millions of themes and thousands of emotions and the networks that tie them together.

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A Global Database of Society

Supported by Google Jigsaw, the GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.

The GDELT Project is a realtime network diagram and database of global human society for open research

Visualization credit GDELT Project.

Watching The Entire World

GDELT monitors the world's news media from nearly every corner of every country
in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages,
every moment of every day.

What would it look like to use massive computing power to see the world through others' eyes, to break down language and access barriers, facilitate conversation between societies, and empower local populations with the information and insights they need to live safe and productive lives? By quantitatively codifying human society's events, dreams and fears, can we map happiness and conflict, provide insight to vulnerable populations and even potentially forecast global conflict in ways that allow us as a society to come together to deescalate tensions, counter extremism, and break down cultural barriers? That is the vision of the GDELT Project. Put simply, the GDELT Project is a realtime open data global graph over human society as seen through the eyes of the world's news media, reaching deeply into local events, reaction, discourse, and emotions of the most remote corners of the world in near-realtime and making all of this available as an open data firehose to enable research over human society.

Global Reach

GDELT monitors print, broadcast, and web news media in over 100 languages from across every country in the world to keep continually updated on breaking developments anywhere on the planet. Its historical archives stretch back to January 1, 1979 and update every 15 minutes. Through its ability to leverage the world's collective news media, GDELT moves beyond the focus of the Western media towards a far more global perspective on what's happening and how the world is feeling about it.

Emerging Media

From the Global Twitter Heartbeat to the SyFy Opposite Worlds Show (and many more to be announced shortly) we are exploring how social media is used around the world and how people and societies express themselves and talk about the world online. As these projects increase our collective understanding of the social sphere and especially how it is used in the non-Western world, we will be increasingly integrating social media into GDELT's monitoring streams.

Historical Breadth

In the words of George Santayana "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - history is highly cyclic and contemporary events are often deeply rooted in historical contexts, making the understanding of the past of critical importance to interpreting the present. Already GDELT is the first truly multi-decade global event database and through an array of collaborations and partnerships we are expanding GDELT's coverage all the way back to the year 1800, which, when complete, will offer more than two centuries of codified global history.

Translation

Even the largest teams of human translators cannot read and translate every word published by the world's news media each day. The GDELT Translingual platform represents what we believe is the largest realtime streaming news machine translation deployment in the world: all global news that GDELT monitors in 65 languages, representing 98.4% of its daily non-English monitoring volume, is translated in realtime into English and processed.

Computing on The Entire World:
Events & Networks

GDELT uses some of the world's most sophisticated natural language
and data mining algorithms, including the world's most powerful
deep learning algorithms, to extract more than 300 categories of events,
millions of themes and thousands of emotions and the networks that tie them together.

Monitoring nearly the entire world's news media is only the beginning - even the largest team of humans could not begin to read and analyze the billions upon billions of words and images published each day. GDELT uses some of the world's most sophisticated computer algorithms, custom-designed for global news media, running on "one of the most powerful server networks in the known Universe", together with some of the world's most powerful deep learning algorithms, to create a realtime computable record of global society that can be visualized, analyzed, modeled, examined and even forecasted. A huge array of datasets totaling trillions of datapoints are available. Three primary data streams are created, one codifying physical activities around the world in over 300 categories, one recording the people, places, organizations, millions of themes and thousands of emotions underlying those events and their interconnections and one codifying the visual narratives of the world's news imagery.

All three streams update every 15 minutes, offering near-realtime insights into the world around us. Underlying the streams are a vast array of sources, from hundreds of thousands of global media outlets to special collections like 215 years of digitized books, 21 billion words of academic literature spanning 70 years, human rights archives and even saturation processing of the raw closed captioning stream of almost 100 television stations across the US in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. Finally, also in collaboration with the Internet Archive, the Archive captures nearly all worldwide online news coverage monitored by GDELT each day into its permanent archive to ensure its availability for future generations even in the face of repressive forces that continue to erode press freedoms around the world.

GDELT Event Database

The GDELT Event Database records over 300 categories of physical activities around the world, from riots and protests to peace appeals and diplomatic exchanges, georeferenced to the city or mountaintop, across the entire planet dating back to January 1, 1979 and updated every 15 minutes.

Essentially it takes a sentence like " The United States criticized Russia yesterday for deploying its troops in Crimea, in which a recent clash with its soldiers left 10 civilians injured" and transforms this blurb of unstructured text into three structured database entries, recording US CRITICIZES RUSSIA, RUSSIA TROOP-DEPLOY UKRAINE (CRIMEA), and RUSSIA MATERIAL-CONFLICT CIVILIANS (CRIMEA).

Nearly 60 attributes are captured for each event, including the approximate location of the action and those involved. This translates the textual descriptions of world events captured in the news media into codified entries in a grand "global spreadsheet."

GDELT Global Knowledge Graph

Much of the true insight captured in the world's news media lies not in what it says, but the context of how it says it. The GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) compiles a list of every person, organization, company, location and several million themes and thousands of emotions from every news report, using some of the most sophisticated named entity and geocoding algorithms in existance, designed specifically for the noisy and ungrammatical world that is the world's news media.

The resulting network diagram constructs a graph over the entire world, encoding not only what's happening, but what its context is, who's involved, and how the world is feeling about it, updated every single day.

Visualize the Global Conversation in a single glance, make World Leader Wordclouds, or explore the connections among Iran's leadership or the evolving narrative around Edward Snowden.

GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph

Worldwide news reporting is increasingly saturated by imagery, but historically GDELT has been limited to the textual contents of global journalism. As of January 2016, a random sample of up to a million images a day are drawn from the media of almost every country and processed through Google's Vision API.

Each image is annotated with the objects and activities it depicts, transcriptions of recognizable text (accurate enough to capture a handwritten Arabic protest sign held at an angle), the geographic location inferred from visual context, recognizable logos, and even the emotion of each human face. All of these annotations are delivered as an open data firehose quantifying the visual narratives of the world's media.

GDELT GKG Special Collections

In addition to the news-based live Global Knowledge Graph, there numerous special GKG collections available that focus on specific specialized sources of information or topics.

Collections currently available include 215 years of books comprising the majority of English language volumes digitized from US libraries, more than half a century of the output of the world's major human rights organizations, saturation processing of the closed captioning of more than 100 US television stations, and a special socio-cultural academic literature archive totaling 21 billion words spanning 70 years and more than 2,200 journals.

Visualization credit GDELT Project.

The GDELT Blog is the official one-stop repository for the
latest news, announcements, information, and applications
of the world's largest open research platform on human society.

GDELT's Home in the Blogosphere

The Official GDELT Project Blog is the best place to keep track of all of the latest news, announcements, information, developments, latest features and releases, and new applications and media coverage of the GDELT Project. Its basically GDELT's home in the blogosphere!

The blog is also where we feature a steady stream of examples showcasing projects that use GDELT in new and innovative ways as well as "getting started" examples that show you how to perform basic analyses using GDELT, from mapping to modeling. Want to see an example of how to apply one of the tools in the GDELT Analysis Service? The blog offers examples of how to use each tool and the kinds of analyses they support.

Do you have a cool new application or visualization you've built using GDELT? Writing a paper or analysis using GDELT? Hosting a hackathon using it? Have an awesome new analysis or visualization software package you used GDELT to show off? Write a great story about GDELT or using GDELT? Drop us an email and we'd love to feature it on our blog!

Get Started!
"The World Right Now, This Moment"

What are you waiting for? Welcome to the "computable earth" where you can compute on global society itself!

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The FEWS NET Learning and Data Hub (“the Hub”) provides a mission-critical, web-based Information Management System (IMS) to enhance the ability of analysts to provide evidence-based decision-making about humanitarian assistance. It is designed to serve FEWS NET team members and their partners with the technology platforms and strategies necessary to manage, analyze, and disseminate FEWS NET data, information, and other knowledge products.

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The Climate Security Risk Monitor maps the level of insecurity (deaths) caused by climate hazards. This will make it more explicit what causes the insecurity (pathways) and might be helpful in identifying potential policy interventions.

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The Climate Security Risk Monitor maps the level of insecurity (deaths) caused by climate hazards. It is based on research of multiple models that exist and combines the best of those models. Currently, in the visualization of the monitor below you can see what potential insecurity level a specific climate hazard might cause.

It is intended that later in 2022 an updated version will be launched including an option to also start at an insecurity (like migration or conflict) using causal modelling. This will make it more explicit what causes the insecurity (pathways) and might be helpful in identifying potential policy interventions.

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The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

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This report offers 30 recommendations to the draft legislation in an effort to correct its secrecy and accountability deficiencies, while also suggesting amendments which would impose some restrictions on the range of powers that the government would be able to wield. It is important that these amendments are seriously taken up due to the sweeping nature of the legislation.

Mexican digital rights organization R3D, with technical support from the Citizen Lab, has determined that Mexican journalists and a human rights defender were infected with Pegasus between 2019 and 2021. The infections occurred years after the first revelations of Pegasus abuses in Mexico, and after Mexico's current President assured the public that the government no longer used the spyware, and that there would be no further abuses.

We find that mass DNA collection in Tibet is another mass DNA collection campaign conducted under the Xi Jinping administration (2012-present), along with the mass DNA collection campaign in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the police-led national program of male DNA collection.

Our investigation uncovered an extensive Pegasus hacking operation against pro-democracy campaigners in Thailand. At least 30 forensically-confirmed victims of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware between October 2020 and November 2021.

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The Centre for Humanitarian Data is focused on increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector. The Centre’s services are available to humanitarian partners and OCHA staff in the field and at Headquarters free of charge. The Centre is focused on four areas: 1) data services; 2) data literacy; 3) data responsibility; and 4) predictive analytics.

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The Centre for Humanitarian Data - Connecting people and data to improve lives

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University of Maryland, Chincoteague Hall, South Library Lane, College Park, MD 20742, Sjedinjene Američke Države

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Academia | North-America | US | Data Collection/Analysis/Mapping | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The Minorities at Risk Organization Behavior dataset generates a list of nealu 1,200 ethnic groups.

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Overview | Project Staff | Advisory Board

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Overview

MAR tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. MAR focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have "political significance" in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions. Political significance is determined by the following two criteria:

The group collectively suffers, or benefits from, systematic discriminatory treatment vis-a-vis other groups in a society

The group is the basis for political mobilization and collective action in defense or promotion of its self-defined interests

Review additional criteria for defining a "Minority at Risk."

The MAR project was initiated by Ted Robert Gurr in 1986 and has been based at the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) since 1988.

The project has developed over four distinct phases:

Phase I covered 227 communal groups which met the criteria for classification as a minority at risk for the years 1945-1990;

Phase II covered 275 groups from 1990-1996;

Phase III covered 275 groups from 1996-1999; and

Phase IV covered 284 groups from 1998-2003.

The last update was completed in February 2009 for the years 2004-2006.

In 2003, Jonathan Wilkenfeld assumed the position of Acting Project Director.

In 2005, the MAR project began a secondary data collection effort, focusing on organizations claiming to represent MAR groups. The Minorities at Risk Organization Behavior dataset currently covers organizations representing MAR groups in the Middle East and North Africa, covering the years 1980-2004. This data was released in September 2008.

Review additional criteria for selecting organizations into the MAROB dataset.

In 2014, the MAR project introduced the AMAR project in order to addresses selection bias issues identified in the MAR dataset. The AMAR project overcomes these concerns by: 1) introducing a new set of selection criteria for ethnic groups that is based on "social relevance" rather than discrimination or political mobilization; 2) using this criteria to generate a list of nearly 1,200 ethnic groups, over 900 of which are not in the MAR database; and 3) using this list to build a new dataset -- the AMAR database -- that combines a random, statistically weighted set of 74 new ethnic groups and the original MAR groups to create a more representative sample of the universe of socially relevant ethnic groups. The AMAR dataset will soon be publicly available.

Review additional criteria for selecting organizations into the AMAR dataset.
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Advisory Board Members

In 1999, the Minorities at Risk Project staff established a panel of interested scholars to provide oversight and advice on the project's future directions and help ensure its continuity. Current MAR Advisory Board members include:

Mary Caprioli

University of Minnesota-Duluth

Ted Robert Gurr

University of Maryland

Erin K. Jenne

Central European University

Michael Johns

Laurentian University at Georgian College

Zeynep Taydas

Clemson University

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Stanford University - Computer Science Department, 353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, Sjedinjene Američke Države

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Academia | North-America | US | AI | Short and long-term peace | Well-functioning governance |

The 2022 AI Index report measures and evaluates the rapid rate of AI advancement from research and development to technical performance and ethics, the economy and education, AI policy and governance, and more.

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Who is advancing AI responsibly and ethically?

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The African Union – European Union (AU-EU) Digital for Development (D4D) Hub

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The African Union – European Union (AU-EU) Digital for Development (D4D) Hub

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Europe | EU | Platforms and services  | Long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Good relations with Neighbors |

The African Union – European Union (AU-EU) Digital for Development (D4D) Hub supports African institutions to lay grounds for an inclusive digital transformation that benefits everyone.

The project offers a comprehensive package of services, products and activities aimed at creating an enabling environment for Africa to seize digitalisation opportunities.

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Sunday Jerome Salami, Nigerian blogger and researcher, is the winner of the first prize in the #D4Dblogging competition , which was organised by the AU-EU Digital for Development (D4D) Hub project. The purpose of the activity was to foster debate and to gather original views on how Africa and...

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Capacity4dev | Connecting the Development Community

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Sunday Jerome Salami, Nigerian blogger and researcher, is the winner of the first prize in the #D4Dblogging competition , which was organised by the AU-EU Digital for Development (D4D) Hub project. The purpose of the activity was to foster debate and to gather original views on how Africa and...

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1270 6th Avenue 12th floor, New York, NY 10020, Sjedinjene Američke Države

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Private, non-profit organization | North-America | US | Mix of technologies | Long-term peace | Sound Business Environment | Equitable Distribution of Resources | High Levels of Human Capital |

As developing technologies (artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, quantum computing, and others) increase in commercial use, the Markle Foundation seeks to ensure these technologies become engines for broad economic participation and benefit all workers in America. Toward that end, the Technology Policy Initiative will engage key cross-sectoral stakeholders to co-design policy solutions.

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Civil Society | North-America | US | AI/Machine Learning/Data-driven analysis | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The Lab develops custom technological solutions and tools for organizations operating in high-risk settings or working on peace and human rights projects, such as Veritas,HateTracker, EWER App.

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We develop custom technological solutions and tools for organizations operating in high-risk settings or working on peace and human rights projects.

Our software development is based on a user-cantered design approach and utilizes the latest privacy and security technologies.

Comprehensive "trustless" digital evidence preservation.

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HateTracker

HateTracker is a secure PWA application to report hate incidents people experience or witness. HateTracker enables law enforcement, social justice organizations and the media to identify when, where and how hate incidents are being committed. It is easily customizable to address the needs of different communities, organizations, and languages.

Web-based. HateTracker works on any phone, any platform.

Secure. Data is private and encrypted according to the highest security standards.

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Early warning, early response app for combating community violence in Myanmar.

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EWER App

JustPeace Labs, contributing to the BuildUp Fellowship program, built a custom app for the Center for Diversity and National Harmony (CDNH) to enable their local network of community monitors to report and verify rumors related to communal tensions.

It is hoped that the app will help increase the number of early warning reports received by CDNH and improve communication with its local network while fostering stronger connections and a greater sense of ownership among them. In response to their reports, CDNH will verify or debunk rumors and provide those updates back to the local networks, who can in turn disseminate accurate information among their communities.

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We develop custom technological solutions and tools for organizations operating in high-risk settings or working on peace and human rights projects. Our software development is based on a user-cantered design approach and utilizes the latest privacy and security technologies. Comprehensive "trustless" digital evidence preservation.

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Research Institute | Europe | Norway | Mix of technologies | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. One of their focus is on technology.

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​Over the last years, the use of drones in the civilian airspace has increased dramatically, opening up some opportunities and leading to a wide range of new security challenges, as illustrated by the numerous incidents observed in Norway in recent weeks.

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Technology - Peace Research Institute Oslo

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​Over the last years, the use of drones in the civilian airspace has increased dramatically, opening up some opportunities and leading to a wide range of new security challenges, as illustrated by the numerous incidents observed in Norway in recent weeks.

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10 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom

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Think tank | Europe | UK | Data governance | Long-term peace | Free flow of information | Well functioning government |

Chatham House conducts research on the evolution of technology as it pertaines to the disruption of legal frameworks.

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Chatham House - International Affairs Think Tank

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Governments, civil society and the private sector each have a role to play to safeguard against growing cyber security threats, and tackle controversies surrounding technology companies and non-state actors over personal data misuse, surveillance and election interference.

The risks for those who remain disconnected and unable to participate in modern economic or political activities is now acute, and clear codes of practice are needed to ensure the benefits of technology, such as artificial intelligence, can be shared widely while its risks are well managed.

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Governments, civil society and the private sector each have a role to play to safeguard against growing cyber security threats, and tackle controversies surrounding technology companies and non-state actors over personal data misuse, surveillance and election interference.

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NGO | Worldwide | Mix of technologies | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Impact driven global organisation nurturing a sustainable ecosystem of tech solutions supporting the inclusion of displaced people. They bring together volunteers, digital tech, cross-sector organisations and humanitarian NGOs to empower inclusion of forcibly displaced persons with responsible digital innovations, developed for and with displaced communities, to have equitable access to trusted information, education, health, work and social integration for their betterment whilst advancing their human rights to participate in the digital society through shared insights.

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Techfugees animates discussions and research about ethics and technology in the humanitarian space through conferences, papers and working groups since 2017. Within the collective, these research led us to create open-source and open-data platforms to identify, list & curate tech-enabled solutions empowering displaced people across the world.

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Techfugees : Empowering displaced people with technology

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Techfugees animates discussions and research about ethics and technology in the humanitarian space through conferences, papers and working groups since 2017. Within the collective, these research led us to create open-source and open-data platforms to identify, list & curate tech-enabled solutions empowering displaced people across the world.

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NGO | Middle East | Iraq | Data Governance
Platforms and services | Short and long-term peace | Peacebuilding, Peacemaking, Free flow of information |

On the front end of things, Tech4Peace exposes fake news & verifies news that lacks proper sources or is unclear. Behind the scenes, they find profiles, pages & groups which spread sectarianism or violence and report them and have the social media platform shut them down. They also train community members to contribute to their work.

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Foundation | Project/initiative | Worldwide | Short-term peace | Peacebuilding |

Tech Against Terrorism is an initiative launched and supported by the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate, working with the global tech industry to tackle terrorist use of the internet whilst respecting human rights. Their plan of action revolves around three pillars: outreach, knowledge-sharing, and practical support.

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Civil Society | North-America | US | Mapping/Data Collection/Data Analysis | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Syria Tracker offers a crisis mapping system that uses crowdsourced text, photo and video reports and machine mining techniques forming a live map of the Syrian conflict since March 2011.

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Crowdsourcing events in Syria since April 2011

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453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30307, Sjedinjene Američke Države

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NGO | North-America | US | Data governance | Short-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The Conflict Resolution Program is home to one of the most comprehensive efforts to monitor, map, and analyze the Syrian conflict, maintaining a near real-time, auto-updating map of areas of control.

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Our Goal

The Carter Center works to prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflicts to build transformative and sustainable peace.

Where We Work

The Center has conflict resolution efforts underway in:

Syria, where we support research and dialogue to identify options to prevent further violence and to remedy structural barriers to economic recovery, refugee return, and reconstruction. We research, analyse, and document conflict using open-information sources to better inform peacebuilding efforts

Israel-Palestine, where we work with Palestinian and Israeli partners to promote a resolution to the conflict based on international law, human rights - particularly equal rights - and dignity for all.

Mali, where we serve as the Independent Observer of the 2015 peace agreement, reporting on the progress of the implementation of the agreement. We also advance local communities' ability to mitigate conflict, reduce violence, and create conditions for health interventions in difficult-to-access zones.

Sudan, where we develop local capacity to mitigate and resolve conflict in areas of the country most impacted by neglected tropical diseases and continue to explore other contributions during challenging times of political transition.

Conflict Prevention and Transformation

Intrastate violence is the most common form of conflict today, with non-state actors - often backed by outsiders who share their interests - playing an increasingly prominent role. This presents difficult new challenges in managing and responding to those conflicts. The Center works toward an inclusive, holistic approach to peacebuilding - one that addresses various dimensions of the conflict - based on the belief that sustainable peace depends on engaging with everyone affected by the decisions made by the people at the peace table. Its gender-conscious approach includes constructive change initiatives that go beyond the resolution of conflicts, reaffirming the importance of women's participation and involvement at all levels of the peace and security agenda and the development of local solutions to global problems.

Election Violence Mitigation

The Carter Center, along with Cure Violence Global and Princeton University's Bridging Divides Initiative, is working to mitigate violence that could erupt in some U.S. communities in the days before and after the November election.

The project team uses data to determine communities at higher risk for election violence and then works with grassroots organizations in those areas to disseminate messages supporting a peaceful electoral transition, provide training and other resources to prevent violence, and help build local coalitions of influencers from across the political spectrum to support a peaceful political transition and push back against violence.

It is working directly with a handful of communities and also reaching out to interfaith networks and community leaders across the U.S. to encourage them to develop their own antiviolence efforts and to share with them training materials and messaging.

Independent Observer Mandate

As the official Independent Observer of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, emanating from the Algiers Process, The Carter Center is responsible for evaluating and reporting on implementation of the 78 individual commitments within the agreement, identifying any hindrances, outlining responsibilities, and recommending steps to advance implementation. Since it began work in January 2018, the Independent Observer team has participated in nearly all negotiations or activities related to the implementation of the agreement; conducted frequent visits to northern and central Mali; participated in more than 600 meetings with various stakeholders; and published regular reports on the status of implementation.

Peace-Health Nexus

Conflict and disease often go hand in hand, particularly in remote, underdeveloped areas. The Carter Center's Conflict Resolution Program promotes a community-based approach to conflict mitigation and resilience-building to both reduce violence and increase access to regions in dire need of basic health services. By providing the tools and the platform for dialogue between health workers and local communities, the Center aims to create conditions that would allow people to get the health services and treatment they need.

Tech for Peace

The Conflict Resolution Program is home to one of the most comprehensive efforts to monitor, map, and analyze the Syrian conflict, maintaining a near real-time, auto-updating map of areas of control. It reports weekly developments in frontline activity and community-level violence and responds to requests for information and analysis from partner institutions. As the Syrian conflict moves into a new phase, historical information on the conflict has become highly sought-after as stakeholders look at long-term trends. The Center's reports support operational planning by international and Syrian demining organizations as well as Syrian civil society working to mitigate the consequences of years of explosive weapons contamination.

Results and Impact

The Mali Independent Observer mission has made 66 recommendations for advancing the implementation of the 2015 Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation. Its impartial reporting helps guide national and international stakeholders. The Center's role as the Independent Observer was recognized by the U.N. Security Council in resolutions 2391 (December 2017), 2423 (June 2018), 2480 (June 2019), and 2531 (June 2020).

At the peace-health nexus in Mali, the Center is advancing local communities' ability to reduce violence and create conditions for health interventions in difficult-to-access zones, especially important for the Center's Guinea Worm Eradication Program. The Center is doing similar work in some of Sudan's conflict-affected communities, including South Darfur, which also face the burden of disease.

The Center's research and consultations to unpack the web of sanctions imposed on Syria and to look for ways to float the possibility of sanctions adjustment in exchange for positive actions by the Syrian government has started to gain traction among Syrian and international community stakeholders. Guided by well-informed dialogue and robust research and analysis, the Center has published a number of sanctions-related paper here.

The Center's Syria Conflict Mapping effort has provided timely analysis of on-the-ground fighting to conflict resolution and humanitarian stakeholders since 2012. The project publishes periodic updates on areas of control, non-state armed group networks, and key dynamics, and provides thought leadership on the intersection of peace, data, and technology.

The Center is partnering with The Elders to support Israeli and Palestinian civil society leaders and activists working on human rights, particularly equal rights and self-determination. The Center and The Elders have virtually convened four rounds of dialogue with Israelis and Palestinians from Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Israel.

Through its Preventing Violent Extremism Project, the Center emerged as a trusted advisor to faith-based and community leaders from North Africa, Europe, and North America working to prevent youth in their communities from joining violent extremist organizations. It provided training and helped amplify the voices of these leaders, who developed and launched over 60 projects, including media initiatives, religious outreach, and youth engagement.

(Photo: ART production/Shutterstock.com)

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The Carter Center works to prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflicts to build transformative and sustainable peace. The Center has conflict resolution efforts underway in: Syria, where we support research and dialogue to identify options to prevent further violence and to remedy structural barriers to economic recovery, refugee return, and reconstruction.

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Fluwelen Burgwal 58, 2511 CJ Den Haag, The Netherlands

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Private company | Europe | Netherlands | AI/Machine Learning/Mapping | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Using change detection analyses to assess damage to buildings and neighbourhoods as a proxy for remaining explosive weapons, Space4Good offered optical change detection and multi-spectral change mapping using Sentinel 1 and Sentinel-2 data in conjunction with optical artificial intelligence algorithms to identify buildings. Then, combined with filtering out seasonal fluctuations and noise, we were able to detect small-scale changes during and after bombardment events. Further combining these with land use classification mapping, more accurate results could be obtained.

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Biomass estimations using remote sensing provide unlimited opportunities, such as carbon sequestration monitoring, carbon credit conversion, yield and resource predictions, and risk assessments. To date, Space4Good has worked on biomass estimations in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. But how do we do it?

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NGO | Worldwide | Platforms and services, connectivity  | Long-term peace | Peacebuilding, free flow of information |

Soliya's Connect Programme is an online cross-cultural education programme between university students around the world, connecting young people in the West with predominantly Muslim societies, and facilitating discussions on a wide range of topics like religion, gender, social culture, the climate change.

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Soliya - Reliably Transformational Virtual Exchange

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Soliya's dialogue and facilitation training virtual exchange programs support groups and individuals in community building designed to maximize change oriented results.

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Civil Society | Europe | Sweden | Data Collection/Analysis | Short and long-term peace | Free Flow of Information |

SIPRI provides many databases, such as The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, which shows all international transfers of major conventional arms since 1950 and is the most comprehensive publicly available source of information on international arms transfers.

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The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database shows all international transfers of major conventional arms since 1950 and is the most comprehensive publicly available source of information on international arms transfers.

The SIPRI Mapping ATT-relevant Cooperation and Assistance Activities Database provides information on cooperation and assistance activities in the field of arms transfer and small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls. The database supports states' implementation of the 2001 UN Programme of Action on SALW and the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty and includes activities carried out since 2012.

The SIPRI Arms Industry Database contains information on the 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies.

The SIPRI Multilateral Peace Operations Database offers information on all multilateral peace operations conducted since 2000, including statistics on personnel, country contributions, fatalities and budgets.

The SIPRI Military Expenditure Database gives the annual military spending of countries since 1949, allowing comparison of countries' military spending in local currency at current prices; in US dollars at constant prices and exchange rates; and as a share of GDP.

Other resources

SIPRI keeps comprehensive collections of material covering arms control and disarmament.

SIPRI gives information on all arms embargoes that have been implemented by an international organization, such as the EU or UN, or by a group of nations. All embargoes that are in force, or have been in force since 1998, are included.

SIPRI provides links to all publicly accessible national reports on arms exports. These are constantly updated to include links to newly published national reports on arms exports.

Using reports from the National reports archive, SIPRI estimates the financial value of arms exports.

The Government of Peru provided a financial donation to SIPRI's databases in 2016.

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The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database shows all international transfers of major conventional arms since 1950 and is the most comprehensive publicly available source of information on international arms transfers. The SIPRI Mapping ATT-relevant Cooperation and Assistance Activities Database provides information on cooperation and assistance activities in the field of arms transfer and small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls.

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Civil Society | North-America | US | AI/Data Collection | Long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

Services Advisor shows the people in need up-to-date information on the location of specific humanitarian service providers. Without much local knowledge or personal resources, refugees can use this app to access all the necessary services available to them.

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The Services Advisor web app was created by PeaceGeeks in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , and is now available in Jordan and Turkey. The app is designed to address a common coordination problem in refugee areas, in which essential organizations that provide medicine, food, shelter, and protection, are unable to serve those most in need.

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Civil Soceity | North-America | Canada | Data Collection/Mapping | Short and long-term peace |

The Sentinel Project provides the actual prevention of genocide, such as identifying and countering websites that incite hatred, using mobile phones networks to document abuses and warn threatened communities, and employing GPS technology to guide targeted people to safe areas.

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From gathering information right through to implementing preventive measures, the creative application of technological tools makes us more effective. Here are a few major technological aspects to our work:

Information Gathering - Effective early warning may require access to large quantities of information. Modern tools such as social media and mobile technology have a lot of potential for gathering information directly members of threatened communities. Websites such as Twitter and Facebook have already demonstrated their potential for getting information out of countries with repressive governments since the post-election violence in Iran in 2009 right up to the 2011 protests throughout North Africa. Information can also be "crowdsourced" through mobile phones, as done by sites such as Ushahidi, which mapped the consequences of disasters like the 2010 Haiti earthquake based on information submitted by average citizens through text messaging. Such tools will be equally powerful when to monitoring potential genocides.

Information Management - Our technology team is currently developing a database which will help to organize and analyze the information reported to us from all sources. This will be a great tool for our research analysts, especially as the quantities of information we work with increasing quantities of information.

Visualization and Dissemination - Many of the processes we will be monitoring and reporting on are complex and challenging to fully understand. By devising a system to visualize the trends and patterns at work in a given situation of concern (SOC), we will be able to present this information to the public, other organizations, and policy makers in a clear format.

Prevention - One of the most exciting areas where technology can play a role is in the actual prevention of genocide. Examples include the possibility of identifying and countering websites that incite hatred, using mobile phones networks to document abuses and warn threatened communities, and employing GPS technology to guide targeted people to safe areas.

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From gathering information right through to implementing preventive measures, the creative application of technological tools makes us more effective. Here are a few major technological aspects to our work: Information Gathering - Effective early warning may require access to large quantities of information.

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NGO | Worldwide | Data Governance, Platforms and services, connectivity  | Short and long-term peace | Peacebuilding, free flow of information, acceptance of the rights of others |

Search for Common Ground initiates shared solutions to destructive conflicts through community dialogue. For example, "Radio for peacebuilding Africa" aims to develop, spread and encourage the use of radio broadcasting techniques and information for peacebuilding. In 2012, it ran a video competition asking Lebanese young people to "Shoot Your Identity".

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Search for Common Ground | Understanding Differences; Acting on Commonalities

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Search is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization in the United States (Tax ID: #52-1257425) and as a nonprofit association in Brussels, Belgium. For any questions on the content of the website, please contact us. View our privacy policy. For any questions regarding access to or deletion of your data, please email us at webinfo@sfcg.org.

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Intergovernmental | Europe | Switzerland | AI/Satellite imagery analysis | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

It provides United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies with satellite analysis, training and capacity development, at their request. It supports Member States with satellite imagery analysis over their respective territories, and provides training and capacity development in the use of geospatial information technologies.

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United Nations Satellite Centre UNOSAT | UNITAR

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The increase in the occurrences of disasters and the high numbers of victims of conflicts are urgent issues that require effective and rapid action. Satellite imagery analysis can cover large areas and provide accurate information in near real time.

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Civil Soceity | North-America | Canada | Data Collection/Analysis | Short and long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

Since 2012 SalamaTech has helped non-violent Syrians stay safe online and make their voices heard. In providing Emergency Tech support, it assists Syrians who have been arrested or had their accounts hacked. It protects Syrian civil society organisations with Digital Safety Audits and Real-Time Remediation.

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SalamaTech began out of a need to protect Syrians caught in conflict, but has grown to focus on digital safety awareness and capacity building, particularly for women and youth.

The Syrian conflict is the first protracted war to be fought on and through the internet. All actors use the internet to organize, plan, and share information; some use it to document human rights abuses and bear witness; others use it to propagandize, collect intelligence, sow fear, and win followers. Now, as the conflict drags on, many use it to maintain family and social connections, continue formal education, and learn new skills for the future.

The Syrian social media space has been dominated by the voices of militant actors. Social media is used as a weapon of war. By contrast, the voices of Syrian non-violent actors have been drowned out by the noise of violence and extremism. To the outside world, the concept of Syrian civil society has been largely reduced to that of powerless "refugees." SalamaTech has been working hard to correct this.

Syrian non-violent citizens - who believe in peace, in human rights, in justice - are still there, working hard on the ground and in their places of refuge for a better future. Some of their important work includes training centres that have sprung up to fill the void left by formal education interrupted by the conflict. It is these courageous men and women - both inside and outside Syria - that SalamaTech aims to empower.

The destruction of war has also left many women as the heads of households. As such, they are continuing education to learn much needed skills, including digital literacy, to find work and contribute to improving Syria.

Since 2012 SalamaTech has helped non-violent Syrians stay safe online and make their voices heard. In providing Emergency Tech support, we assist Syrians who have been arrested or had their accounts hacked. We protect Syrian civil society organisations with Digital Safety Audits and Real-Time Remediation. Our network of on-the-ground Digital Technology First Responders provide in-person and remote training to empower women, and youth, to become active drivers of peace and development. Together we are empowering and protecting a chorus of Syrian voices - who will be heard.

Fostering these authentic, local voices is key to peace-building. In supporting Syrians - in particular women and youth - SalamaTech takes an alternative approach to preventing violent extremism by empowering non-violent civil society to participate and lead in building a better tomorrow.

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SalamaTech began out of a need to protect Syrians caught in conflict, but has grown to focus on digital safety awareness and capacity building, particularly for women and youth. The Syrian conflict is the first protracted war to be fought on and through the internet.

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180 Bloor Street West suite 1000, Toronto, ON M5S 2V6, Kanada

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Private company | North-America | Canada | AI/Data Collection/Mapping | Short and long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

RIWI provides many machines and products, such as RIWI migration monitor, which helps the global community prepare and respond to the crisis, RIWI is collecting real-time, on the ground information on whether and when migration intentions change, and allows for the most effective and targeted international responses.

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RIWI alpha: China Electric Vehicles

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Geopolitical and political risk is now THE key headline risk for financial markets. The Compass includes three Indexes that reliably gauge the extent of these political and geopolitical risks and allow investors to confidently navigate them. LEARN MORE Given the war in Ukraine, millions have left their homes seeking safety.

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Civil Society | North-America | US | Machine Learning | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Radiant MLHub is the world’s first cloud-based open library dedicated to Earth observation training data and models for use with machine learning algorithms.

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Radiant MLHub hosts open ML training datasets and models generated by Radiant Earth Foundation, partners, and community. Radiant MLHub allows anyone to access, store, register, and share open training datasets and models for high-quality Earth observations, and it's designed to encourage widespread collaboration and development of trustworthy applications.

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Radiant MLHub hosts open ML training datasets and models generated by Radiant Earth Foundation, partners, and community. Radiant MLHub allows anyone to access, store, register, and share open training datasets and models for high-quality Earth observations, and it's designed to encourage widespread collaboration and development of trustworthy applications.

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Intergovernmental | Global | NLP/AI | Short and long-term peace | Peacebuilding |

Pulse Lab Kampala combines traditional data sources with new technologies to gain greater insight into how to better serve people living on the African continent.

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The UN Secretary-General's Strategy on New Technologies calls for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies - like the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, blockchain, robotics, autonomous vehicles,

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The UN Secretary-General's Strategy on New Technologies calls for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies - like the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, blockchain, robotics, autonomous vehicles,

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Zuid Hollandlaan 7, 2596 AL Den Haag, The Netherlands

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Private company | Europe | Netherlands | AI | Short and long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

It provides people the online monitoring of emerging risks and disruptions, Instant access to real-time social media insights for an informed response.

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PublicSonar | Online monitoring of emerging risks and disruptions

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Gain realtime access to smart insights from large volumes of public data for an informed response on emerging risks and disruptions.

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Provision of a Dedicated Satellite Constellation (DSC) to the Ukrainian government

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Provision of a Dedicated Satellite Constellation (DSC) to the Ukrainian government

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Private company | South America | Argentina | Satellite imagery | Short-term peace | Peace enforcement |

Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, announced a collaboration with Washington, D.C.-based Halifax International Security Forum, an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening strategic cooperation among democratic nations, to provide the Ukrainian government with a Dedicated Satellite Constellation (DSC), a fleet of satellites over a specific area. Access to timely, high-resolution satellite imagery will provide actionable information for the Ukrainian government to mobilize resources and evacuate civilians. The widespread scale of the invasion requires the vantage point of space; the DSC will enable Ukraine to capture up to eight areas of interest of its choosing every day to monitor and address changing ground conditions across its sovereign territory and borders.

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Ukraine to receive direct control of imaging satellites for enhanced intelligence and scalable monitoring of military movements, safety corridors, and critical infrastructure
New York, NY - March 21, 2022 - Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ:SATL) a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, announced a collaboration with Washington, D.C.-based Halifax International Security Forum ("HFX"), an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to strengthening strategic cooperation among democratic nations, to provide the Ukrainian government with a Dedicated Satellite Constellation ("DSC"), a fleet of satellites over a specific area.

This effort is in response to the call from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence asking for help in raising funds for Satellogic's DSC service. Satellogic prepared a contract for its DSC service at a significantly reduced price and expedited timeline for activation. HFX volunteered to raise funds for the service on behalf of Ukraine.

Currently, Ukraine is receiving satellite imagery from friendly governments and private companies but it is unable to task those satellites according to its own needs. The Ukrainian government will have direct control of the DSC, enabling Ukraine to manage a fleet of satellites for encrypted tasking and satellite imagery access over its sovereign territory. The DSC will drastically increase the country's access to high-resolution images and video intelligence from low Earth orbit.

Access to timely, high-resolution satellite imagery will provide actionable information for the Ukrainian government to mobilize resources and evacuate civilians. The widespread scale of the invasion requires the vantage point of space; the DSC will enable Ukraine to capture up to eight areas of interest of its choosing every day to monitor and address changing ground conditions across its sovereign territory and borders.

"The Dedicated Satellite Constellation service is designed to democratize access to space, enabling Geospatial Intelligence autonomy for advanced national security. It is a flexible and affordable satellite-as-a-service model that delivers modernized capabilities without costly investments in infrastructure, launches, and operations," stated Emiliano Kargieman, CEO and Co-Founder at Satellogic. "The DSC will give the Ukrainian government a detailed, timely, and scalable perspective of its country and changing ground conditions that can be used now to protect its citizens and later for reconstruction and recovery efforts."

HFX has launched a $10 million appeal - through its Ukraine Victory Fund - for the DSC for Ukraine.

"We are choosing to aid Ukraine in the best way we can, delivering advanced capabilities for critical intelligence that will enable more timely and informed strategic decisions," said Peter Van Praagh, President of HFX.
About Satellogic
Founded in 2010 by Emiliano Kargieman and Gerardo Richarte, Satellogic (NASDAQ:SATL) is the first vertically integrated geospatial company, driving real outcomes with planetary-scale insights. Satellogic is creating and continuously enhancing the first scalable, fully automated Earth Observation ("EO") platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution, providing accessible and affordable solutions for customers.

Satellogic's mission is to democratize access to geospatial data of high-resolution images and analytics through its information platform to help solve the world's most pressing problems including climate change, energy supply, and food security. Using its patented Earth imaging technology, Satellogic unlocks the power of EO to deliver high-quality, planetary insights at the lowest cost in the industry.

With more than a decade of experience in space, Satellogic has proven technology and a strong track record of delivering satellites to orbit and high-resolution data to customers at the right price point.

Find out more at https://satellogic.com/
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. The words "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intends", "may", "might", "plan", "possible", "potential", "predict", "project", "should", "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements are based on Satellogic's current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on Satellogic and include statements concerning Satellogic's strategies, Satellogic's future opportunities, and the commercial and governmental applications for Satellogic's technology. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by, an investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of Satellogic. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: (i) Satellogic's ability to scale its constellation, (ii) Satellogic's ability to continue to meet image quality expectations, to continue to enhance the capability of its network of satellites and to continue to offer superior unit economics, (iii) Satellogic's ability to become or remain an industry leader, (iv) the number of commercial applications for Satellogic's products and services, (v) Satellogic's ability to address all commercial applications for satellite imagery, changes in the competitive and highly regulated industries in which Satellogic operates, variations in operating performance across competitors and changes in laws and regulations affecting Satellogic's business, (vi) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts and other expectations, and to identify and realize additional opportunities, (vii) the risk of downturns in the commercial launch services, satellite and spacecraft industry, (viii) the risk that Satellogic and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize Satellogic's products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so, (ix) the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations, (x) the risk of product liability or regulatory lawsuits or proceedings relating to Satellogic's products and services, and (xi) the risk that Satellogic is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of Satellogic's registration statement on Form F-1 and the prospectus included therein and other documents filed or to be filed by Satellogic from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Satellogic assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Satellogic can give no assurance that it will achieve its expectations.
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Satellogic and HFX Collaborate to Equip Ukraine with Satellite Tasking Capabilities - Satellogic

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Ukraine to receive direct control of imaging satellites for enhanced intelligence and scalable monitoring of military movements, safety corridors, and critical infrastructure New York, NY - March 21, 2022 - Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ:SATL) a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, announced a collaboration with Washington, D.C.-based Halifax International Security Forum ("HFX"), an independent, non-profit, [...]

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Civil society | South America | Argentina | Mix of technologies | Long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

A free online program for young Latin American women between 16 and 21 years old to learn how to program an application with social impact.

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Protagonistas del futuro busca crear una comunidad latinoamericana de jóvenes mujeres comprometidas con transformar su realidad a través de la tecnología.

Los cupos son limitados, para participar deberás cumplir con estos requisitos:

* Completar el formulario de inscripción (*)
* Tener entre 16 y 21 años al 26/06/2023.
* Vivir en América Latina.
* Poder participar de las 8 semanas del programa.
* Contar con computadora o celular con conexión a internet
(*) Los datos que nos proporciones en el formulario no serán vendidos, ni compartidos nunca con terceros. Conoce más sobre el tratamiento de datos personales conocé más acá.
Queremos generar un grupo diverso, por eso seleccionaremos mujeres de:
* Diferentes países y ciudades
* Diferentes edades
* Con distintos intereses

Las participantes seleccionadas serán contactadas entre el 29/05/2023 y 19/06/2023, vía correo electrónico. No se darán devoluciones personalizadas sobre las postulaciones.

Si quieres conocer más detalles, puedes descargar este documento. Puedes escribir tus consultas a [email protected]

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Protagonistas del futuro | Chicas en tecnología

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Programa inmersivo online gratuito para jóvenes mujeres de 16 a 21 años de América Latina.

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Private company | North-America | US | Machine Learning | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

It utilizes a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data, coupled with state-of-the-art models to generate quantitative risk estimates on a geographic and temporal scale.

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In 1907 Sir Francis Galton analyzed data from a weight-judging competition at the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition. To compete for prizes, about 800 individuals paid to guess the weight of the ox once it had been slaughtered and dressed. The remarkable finding, repeated in many ways since, is that the average of all the guesses was within one percent of the correct wight, yet no individual guess was that close. This principle is known as the wisdom of crowds. This suggests it is too hard to build a single model that is perfect, but rather one is better off to build lots of imperfect models and average across them. EBMA improves prediction by pooling information from multiple forecast models to generate ensemble predictions.This approach has been extended to political forecasting models ( here and here) and incorporated successfully into ongoing forecasting efforts undertaken by government and commercial enterprises.

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In 1907 Sir Francis Galton analyzed data from a weight-judging competition at the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition. To compete for prizes, about 800 individuals paid to guess the weight of the ox once it had been slaughtered and dressed.

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Data governance | AI/Machine-learning | Long-term peace | Well functioning government |

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning. It has been used all over the world by governments, academics, independent media and citizens, and is open source.

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Polis has been used all over the world by governments, academics, independent media and citizens, and is completely open source.

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Private company | North-America | US | AL/Machine Learning | Long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

Peloria recognizes the need to address ethical issues attached to the use of artificial intelligence, including privacy, misuse of information, data sovereignty, inequality, and bias.

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Peloria recognizes the need to address ethical issues attached to the use of artificial intelligence, including privacy, misuse of information, data sovereignty, inequality, and bias.

Peloria's Ethics Oversight Board monitors risk of potential for harm via unethical use of Peloria's technology. This board of independent observers evaluates policy and practice to ensure Peloria's research and technologies are not used unethically.

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Peloria recognizes the need to address ethical issues attached to the use of artificial intelligence, including privacy, misuse of information, data sovereignty, inequality, and bias. Peloria's Ethics Oversight Board monitors risk of potential for harm via unethical use of Peloria's technology.

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Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6, Canada

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Academic Institution | North-America | Canada |

The PeaceTech Living-Learning Community is a cluster of students from diverse faculties interested in exploring the intersection of technology and peace in society. The community is made of students who are residents, virtual residents, or associates at Conrad Grebel University College.

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Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement

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A Living-Learning Community for creators, innovators, and collaborators

Do you seek opportunities to reflect on the impact of technology in our world? Are you yearning to apply your creativity to advance peace? PeaceTech may be for you!

The PeaceTech Living-Learning Community is a cluster of students from diverse faculties interested in exploring the intersection of technology and peace in society. The community is made of students who are residents, virtual residents, or associates at Conrad Grebel University College.
No tech or peace knowledge required - just passion and curiosity! Who's it for?

1st to 5th year students from any faculty

Grebel residents and associates formally connected to Conrad Grebel​

Curious students interested in learning about and exploring the intersection of technology and peace in society - both in and beyond their own program of study

Students in the PeaceTech LLC will be supported by:

Learning from and connecting with peers who offer a diversity of perspectives that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the PeaceTech LLC.

Enhancing in-class learning by organizing and participating in conversations, forums and events on technology, peace, social entrepreneurship, vocation/purpose in life, and more.

Mentoring relationships between students and participants in the Centre for Peace Advancement community.

Opportunities to connect with the University of Waterloo and Waterloo region's vibrant innovation ecosystem in order to enhance knowledge and experience with PeaceTech related issues and organizations, including hackathons, pitch competitions, and incubator programs.

Opportunities to network with other leaders and mentors, including Grebel alumni.

Stay informed about this opportunity.

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A Living-Learning Community for creators, innovators, and collaborators Do you seek opportunities to reflect on the impact of technology in our world? Are you yearning to apply your creativity to advance peace? PeaceTech may be for you!

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1100 13th Street Northwest suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20005, Sjedinjene Američke Države

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NGO | North-America | US | Mix of technologies | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. The Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

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PeaceTech Lab | Putting the Right Tools in the Right Hands to Build Peace

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PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts.

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Edinburgh Law School, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo

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International research consortium | Europe | UK | Data governance | Short-term peace | Peacebuilding | Peace enforcement | Peacemaking | Peacekeeping |

Seven-year research consortium led by the University of Edinburgh Law School, working on the re-thinking of peace and transition processes through a range of traditional, praxis, and digitally innovative research tools and projects. One of their focus is on PeaceTech, with particular emphasis on innovations in data, data and research collaboration, and feedback to data owners and social change agents in the field.

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PeaceRep

Rethinking peace & transition processes in a changing conflict landscape

PeaceTech

Digital tools for peace process transformation

PeaceRep will provide new and innovative ways of 'PeaceTech' working, focused on innovations in data, data and research collaboration, and feedback to data owners and social change agents in the field.

This workstream will develop the PA-X database and integrate it in innovative projects of data visualisation and dashboarding.

The component will also establish an international network of PeaceTech practitioners for innovative digital transformation management in peace processes.

Key Research Questions
- How can data for processes be constructed to create a comparative frame for peace process comparison? What improvements on PA-X data and interconnectivity can be built?

- How can peace process data across organisations be linked to create 'big data': what are the obstacles to collaboration, and what are the technical solutions?

- How do research methods of data collection lead to new ways to collaborate, and to 'seeing things differently'? How can innovative processes of visualisation provoke new constituencies to interact with the data and use it for social change and peacebuilding?

- How can data capacity be harnessed across global north and south for peace making capacity?

- What are the best modalities for bringing together the human resources for good technological innovation, with the research questions which will assist new forms of peacebuilding activity, with the researchers, in a good 'product design' tool?

- What is distinctive about PeaceTech, from other forms of 'Tech'?

- How can participation of women and marginalised communities be facilitated in a data world of uneven access?

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Skip to content PeaceRep Rethinking peace & transition processes in a changing conflict landscape Digital tools for peace process transformation PeaceRep will provide new and innovative ways of 'PeaceTech' working, focused on innovations in data, data and research collaboration, and feedback to data owners and social change agents in the field.

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Academia | Europe | Norway | Mix of technologies | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. They explore how conflicts erupt and how they can be resolved; how different kinds of violence affect people; and how societies tackle crises – and the threat of crisis. They document general trends, seek to understand processes, and inform concrete responses.

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PRIO's purpose is to conduct research for a more peaceful world. In pursuit of this, we cultivate academic excellence, communicate with communities of scholars, policy-makers, practitioners, as well as the general public, and we engage in shaping the global peace research agenda.

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Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, Kalifornija, Sjedinjene Američke Države

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Academia | North-America | US | Mix of technologies | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Based in Stanford, their focus is on how to design positive, pro-social behavior at scale using mediating technology, to help more people be more good to each other.

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Our latest publication, The Peace Data Standard, is a first step toward creating concrete metrics that will make it possible for everyone to measure, for the first time, both the peace they create in the world, and the associated economic value of strengthening the social fabric that knits humanity and our environment together.

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Our latest publication, The Peace Data Standard, is a first step toward creating concrete metrics that will make it possible for everyone to measure, for the first time, both the peace they create in the world, and the associated economic value of strengthening the social fabric that knits humanity and our environment together.

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NGO | Europe | UK | Connectivity, Data governance  | Short and/or long-term peace | Peacebuilding, free flow of information |

PeaceFactory runs viral campaigns on Facebook that encourage people to post videos, interview and messages of love and friendship across conflict barriers.

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Dynamis Ltd, 8 Sycamore Street, London EC1Y 0SW, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo

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NGO | Europe | UK | Connectivity, Data governance  | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Help local people to find their own solutions to conflicts by connecting local peacebuilders and running educational campaigns.

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Peace Direct – An international charity dedicated to stopping violence.

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Stand with people living through violent conflict by making a gift to Peace Direct today.

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Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping

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Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping

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International organisation | Worldwide | Mix of technologies | Short-term peace | Peacekeeping |

Established in 2014 with an objective to bring greater involvement to peacekeeping through innovative approaches and technologies that have the potential to empower UN global operations. The initiative is now managed by the Department of Operational Support (DOS) and the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT).

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The Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping initiative was established in 2014 with an objective to bring greater involvement to peacekeeping through innovative approaches and technologies that have the potential to empower UN global operations. This initiative is now managed by the Department of Operational Support (DOS) and the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT). The initiative has been influenced by the recommendations made in:

With technology continuously evolving and expected to play an ever-increasing role in supporting multidimensional mission mandate implementation, OICT, DOS, and Member States are presented with both a challenge and exciting opportunities.

The Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping initiative offers Member States an opportunity for a new kind of relationship with OICT and DOS beyond the traditional troop, police and financial contributions-one that aligns the technological and innovative capacities of the world with the specific needs of the Field Technology Sections in the field missions.

The international symposium is at the core of the initiative, and it is the only information-sharing conference on field technology organized for the peacekeeping community.

The conference provides a platform for a high-level technology think tank committed to identifying the strategic challenges in peace operations and initiating innovative partnership projects that have the potential to quickly impact peacekeeping through real and effective solutions.

The forum has proven to be fertile ground for knowledge sharing, brainstorming, synchronized efforts, the development of new partnerships, and practical, hands-on projects; an early success and ongoing initiative of the Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping is the UN C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) Academy for Peace Operations.

During the event, attendees meet with senior leaders from United Nations peacekeeping missions, the Global Service Centre, and Headquarters to learn about the current state of field technology operations, its future, and the specific areas where opportunities exist for contribution and collaboration. Symposium themes set the tone for high-level discussions.

Past Symposia

2022: "Informed. Aware. Effective"
Host Country: South Africa
Following two years of delays caused by the pandemic, the 2022 Symposium was attended by 322 delegates from 43 Member States, host nation, different United Nations entities, academia and others. In addition to being the event with the largest number of participating delegates, this event also broke records in terms of participation in the thematic working groups, with more than 250 delegates discussing how to make peace operations safer, better informed, better trained, environmentally friendly and provide better health services.

2019: "Predict. Prevent. Protect"
Host Country: Kazakhstan
A total of 266 delegates from 42 Member States attended the 2019 Symposium, making this the largest symposium to date. Discussions were centered around leveraging technologies to advance the topic areas in the context of United Nations peace operations. United Nations uniformed and non-uniformed personnel, and participants from Member States engaged in a series of plenary, working group and discussion forums.

2018: "Next Tech Peacekeeping"
Host Country: Germany
The 2018 symposium attracted a number of attendees from member states with an interest in making a significant impact on the core operations of the peacekeeping missions. Representatives from Member States, academia, think tanks, and other UN partners met with DFS Field Technology teams to identify whether the expertise pools available in Member States could support the ongoing activities in peacekeeping technology. Discussions around innovation built upon the momentum from the prior symposia.

2016: "Awareness, Protection, Innovation"
Host Country: Republic of Korea

Subject Matter Experts: France and Canada

MINUSMA Mission Secure Network project (Kidal) - in partnership with France

Colombia Mission - THW Rapid Deployment

MINUSMA Camp Security Project Phase 2 (Gao) - in partnership with France

UN Open GIS: contribution of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery for peacekeeping

The event attracted 118 representatives from the military and police of 18 Member States, and academic and research institutions: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), the OSGeo and Politécnica di Milano, Italy, the University of Applied Sciences, and Arts of Southern Switzerland.

2015: "Innovation and Next-Generation Peacekeeping"
Host Country: Austria

Subject Matter Experts: Switzerland and France

MINUSMA Mission Secure Network project - in partnership with France

Modular Command Centre - in partnership with Germany

MINUSMA Camp Security Project - in partnership with France

UN Signals Academy Establishment - in partnership with Japan

UN Open GIS establishment

First engagement of Government of Japan into UN PKO

The conference attracted 100 military and police from over 30 Member States as well as representatives from the United Nations University, the Danish Institute for International Studies, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the United States PeaceTech Lab, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

2014: "Exploring New Partnerships"
Host Country: Italy

Concept for a regional ICT training centre in Entebbe, Uganda-the UN Signals Academy

Improving camp security through integrated aerostat solutions-the MINUSCA Camp Security Project

Establishment of the strategic partnership framework

This first-time event attracted 46 international delegates and included military and police from 16 Member States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and officially established a high-level strategic partnership framework to meet annually to discuss projects and in0itiatives that enhance information technology and communications for peacekeeping missions.

Key Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping Projects in Progress

The symposium has proven to be a very effective and successful platform to achieve actual outcomes that can impact missions almost immediately and to find ways to utilize and redirect existing capacities in a mutually beneficial way. Learn more about ongoing initiatives.

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Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping

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Private company | North-America | US | AI/Data Analysis | Long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Extremely lightweight and power-efficient to deploy, Palantir AI Inference Platform (AIP) embeds models on drones, aircraft, ships, robots, buildings, satellites — and more, from efficiently detecting on-land risks from space to predictive maintenance at the edge.

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Meet Palantir Edge AI. Featuring micro models. Sensor fusion. Continuous deliver. Autonomous decision-making. Anywhere deployment.

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Civil society | Africa | Nepal | Data governance | Short-term peace | Peacekeeping |

NepalMonitor.org is a system designed to alert local organizations to human rights and security incidents happening in their area, as well as allow anyone to easily share incidents they see with local, national, and international organizations. It maps reports from media, collected by large reputable organizations, or sent directly by individuals.

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NepalMonitor.org: a COCAP protection and conflict prevention initiative

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NepalMonitor.org is a system designed to alert local organizations to human rights and security incidents happening in their area, as well allow anyone to easily view incidents

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Civil society  | Asia | Thailand | Data collection/Analysis/Mapping | Long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Myanmar Peace Monitor is a project that works to support communication and understanding in the current efforts for peace and reconciliation in Myanmar. It aims to centralize information, track and make sense of the many events and stakeholders involved in the complex and multifaceted peace process.

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Private company | Europe | UK | AL/Machine Learning/Data Analysis | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Moonshot produces real-time monitoring and incident response reporting for both corporate and government clients.

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From threat monitoring to counter-messaging campaigns, we use data-proven techniques to ensure that we, together with our clients, can respond to online harms effectively all over the world.

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The Moonshot Model From threat monitoring to counter-messaging campaigns, we use data-proven techniques to ensure that we, together with our clients, can respond to online harms effectively all over the world.

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Civil Society | Africa | Kenya | Data Collection/Analysis/Mapping | Short and long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

It collects and visualizes the number of police killings and disappeared in police custody.

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statistics Police KILLINGS FROM 2007 WE HAVE BEEN RECORDING ALL THE LOST VOICES AND HERE IS A BRIEF SUMMARY FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT VIEW ALL VOICES ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES POLICE KILLINGS IN 2022 Missing Voices verified 130 cases of police killings and enforced disappearance between January and October.

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Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2a, Ženeva, Švicarska

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Academia | Europe | Switzerland | AI/Data Analysis | Long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The project builds on recent advances in text-mining of online participation processes.

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Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Peacemaking

About the project

In today's technologized world, efforts to end armed conflict through mediation are increasingly shaped by digital technologies. While peacemaking traditionally has been considered a human-centered activity, negotiations are often supplemented with online activities. Social media has come to change the landscape of conflict, with conflict parties and stakeholders pro-actively using different online platforms to make their voices heard. The digitization of peace processes produces large amounts of data, which cannot be sufficiently analyzed using conventional means.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers opportunities to develop tools that could support mediators and their teams in gathering and analyzing the data produced in the context of peace processes. Although the topic of AI has come to receive increased attention in the field of peace mediation, there is a lack of concrete examples and applications that could bring discussions forward. This project will therefore explore the ways in which AI-applications could be used in peacemaking, while raising important questions about potential challenges these applications might pose.

In particular, the research will analyze how AI can support the analysis of arguments and opinions voiced by conflict parties and stakeholders in digital data. To this end, the project builds on recent advances in text-mining of online participation processes.

This project is conducted by researchers at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Universität Düsseldorf and SwissPeace.

The project is funded by the Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future Initiative of the Volkswagen Foundation.

Project activities

Workstream 1

Mediators' Needs and Ecosystems

The team will analyze the practical needs and potential strategic purposes of AI in mediation support, as well as the organizational and technological ecosystems in which AI tools could be embedded. We will examine existing efforts to create AI applications for mediators and explore how argument data could be used by mediators to assess dynamics of negotiation.

Workstream 2

Data and Methods

The team will discuss the methodological and data requirements of AI-supported argument analysis. We will look at options for transparent and explainable AI and related questions of inference methods. The team will also identify and analyze various data sources for machine-supported argument analysis, including data derived from social media and other digital inclusion efforts.

Workstream 3

Output Visualisation

The team will identify data visualization techniques that can help integrate AI outputs into mediators' workflows and decision-making processes. This includes geographic visualization and graph-based techniques graph-based techniques. We will also explore the prospects of creating visual data mining tools that present multiple perspectives on the data through several visualization styles and interactive data analysis.

Research team

Andreas Hirblinger

Dr. Andreas Hirblinger has broad expertise on inclusive peacemaking and peacebuilding. He conducts research on knowledge production, digital inclusion and the use of technology in peace processes at the CCDP, Graduate Institute, Geneva.

Laurent Goetschel

Prof. Laurent Goetschel is the Director of swisspeace, and the director of the Basel Peace Forum, which strives to bring the innovation and peacebuilding fields closer. He is also a professor of political science at the University of Basel.

Ahmed Eleiba

Ahmed Eleiba is the senior program officer for Mediation at swisspeace. He also represents swisspeace in the CyberMediation initiative, which focuses on the role of social media and digital technologies in peace mediation.

David Lanius

Dr. David Lanius' areas of expertise include argumentation analysis, argument theory and argumentation reconstruction. He is particularly interested in analyzing the use of alternative facts or "fake news" in populist debates.

Background readings

Hirblinger, Andreas

Designing Digital Inclusion in Peacemaking

Arguments can be collected and analyzed as part of inclusive peacemaking efforts. Digital technologies play a key role in facilitating such processes. The most important insights from the "Designing Digital Inclusion" Project, conducted at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies. The full text is available here.

Höne, Katharina

Mediation and Artificial Intelligence:Notes on the Future of International Conflict Resolution

Artificial Intelligence plays an increasing role in Cybermediation and Digital Peacemaking. This report by the DiploFoundation provides an overview of the current debate on the use of Artificial Intelligence in Peace Mediation. The full text is available here.

Lippi, Marco and Paolo Torlinie

Argument Mining: A Machine Learning Perspective

Understanding arguments often requires the analysis of large amounts of text data. This paper dicusses options, problems and challenges for machine-learning supported argument mining. The full text is available here.

Betz, Gregor, Tamara Mchedlidze, et al.

Applying argumentation to structure and visualize multi-dimensional opinion spaces

Visualization is critical for understanding arguments. This paper discusses options to visualize large scale, multi-dimensional opinion spaces, based on formal argumentation theory. The full text is available here.

Conrad, Stephan et al.

Text Mining für Online-Partizipationsverfahren: Die Notwendigkeit einer maschinell unterstützten Auswertung

Text mining and argument mining have been sucessfully explored in other participatory political processes, for instance in the context of large infrastructure projects. This article summarises important lessons learned from Germany. The full text is available here.

Related initiatives

Digital Inclusion in Peacemaking

Research project conducted at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2020.
http://digitalpeacemaking.com

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6th Street, Parkhurst, Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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NGO | Africa | South-Africa | AI/Data Collection/Analysis | Long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

An open source, easy-to-use toolkit of analytical software for African journalism observatories to keep media institutions honest, help improve media professionalism and promote quality journalism.

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Have you ever wondered just who has the loudest voice in our media? Have a look below to see who really gets to speak in our media. Then think about who isn't shown and ask what does it tell us about power and the media in South Africa.

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Matching Land Conflicts to Governmental Policies

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Matching Land Conflicts to Governmental Policies

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Private company | North-America | US | AI/Machine Learning | Long-term peace | Mix of peace type |

This project aimed to provide a proof-of-concept machine-learning-based methodology to identify land conflicts events in geography and match those events to relevant government policies.

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Matching Land Conflict Events to Government Policies via Machine Learning | World Resources Institute - Omdena

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Civil Society | Latin-America | Colombia | Mapping/Data Collection | Short and long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

In 2014, together with the National Center for Historical Memory and Open Truth, Rutas del Conflicto documented 730 massacres committed in the midst of the Colombian armed conflict, from 1982 to 2012.

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Rutas del Conflicto | El portal periodístico que sigue el rastro del conflicto armado en Colombia

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El proyecto ha llegado a las regiones colombianas golpeadas por la violencia para contar la historia de la guerra desde la voz de los sobrevivientes. Rutas del Conflicto busca la convergencia entre formatos tradicionales y formatos digitales, a través del periodismo de datos y el periodismo ciudadano

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Private company | Europe | Ukraine | AL/ML/Mapping/Data Collection and Analysis | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Provide Live conflicts maps on Ukraine, USA, Syria, and Israel-Palestine, according to news and reports.

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Human Rights Watch, 5th Avenue, New York, Sjedinjene Američke Države

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Platform / civil society  | North-America | US | Data governance | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The goal of the Kivu Security Tracker is to map violence by state security forces and armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to better understand trends, causes of insecurity and serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

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Kivu Security Tracker | Crisis Mapping in Eastern Congo

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Kivu Security Tracker | Crisis Mapping in Eastern Congo

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The Kivu Security Tracker maps violence by state security forces and armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to better understand trends, causes of insecurity, and serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

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NGO | North-America | US | Platforms and services, connectivity  | Short and long-term peace | Peacebuilding, free flow of information |

Internews trains media professionals and citizen journalists to use innovative media and multi-language networks to dispel rumours in conflict zones, for example Nile FM community radio station in South Sudan.

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Home - Information Saves Lives | Internews

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We Support Independent Media in 100 Countries. Photo by Pavel Dorogoy.

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NGO | Europe | UK | Data governance | Long-term peace | Well-functioning Government | Free Flow of Information |

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to safeguarding human rights and reversing the rising tide of polarisation, extremism and disinformation worldwide through research and analysis.

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Copyright © Institute for Strategic Dialogue (2018). Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is a company limited by guarantee, registered office address PO Box 7814, London, W1C 1YZ. ISD is registered in England with company registration number 06581421 and registered charity number 1141069. All Rights Reserved.

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Civil Society | EU | Switzerland | AI/ML/NLP | Short and long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

Insecurity Insight examines threats facing people living and working in dangerous environments. its data collection and analysis methods generate insights relevant for aid workers, aid agencies and those concerned with the protection of health workers, educators, IDPs and refugees.

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Insecurity Insight examines threats facing people living and working in dangerous environments. Our innovative data collection and analysis methods generate insights relevant for aid workers, aid agencies and those concerned with the protection of health workers, educators, IDPs and refugees.

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Rue du Champ de Mars 21, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

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Intergovernmental | EU | Belgium | Data-driven analysis | Long-term peace | Mix of peace types |

The INFORM Risk Index is a global, open-source risk assessment for humanitarian crises and disasters. It can support decisions about prevention, preparedness and response.

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The INFORM Risk Index is a global, open-source risk assessment for humanitarian crises and disasters. It can support decisions about prevention, preparedness and response.

Results and data

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Subnational Risk

INFORM Epidemics

Dashboard

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