The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Nicole Rieber, Head of Unit Peace Education of the Berghof Foundation

Today's guest is Nicole Rieber. She works as Head of Unit for the Peace Education team at Berghof Foundation. In her work, she focuses on digital peace education, in particular phenomena like misinformation, hate speech and conspiracy theories and what influence those have on individuals and (democratic) societies. She leads the projects #vrschwrng and Culture of Conflict 3.0 and is editor for the internet portal frieden-fragen.de, a peace internet portal for children and youth. Before joining the Berghof Foundation, she coordinated a research group at the University of Tübingen. Nicole holds a PhD in psychology and a master in media science. In 2022, Nicole received the Landecker Democracy Fellowship.

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Grace Connors focussing on peacebuilding and disinformation

Today's guest is Grace Connors. Grace is an  alumna of the University of Notre Dame with a double major in Computer Science and Peace Studies. Her role as a digital peacebuilder has led me to a diverse array of experiences across sectors and countries, including work in effective philanthropy, start-ups, and strategic communications in the US, social impact technology in Ireland, anti-genocide advocacy in Rwanda, and farming monitoring and analysis in Ghana. After recently completing a Scoville Fellowship with ReThink Media to expand upon her passions in the peacebuilding space, she now serves as a research assistant in the Do Good Institute in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. In this role, she works alongside a team to develop innovative research at the intersection of philanthropy, nonprofits, and volunteerism, with the ultimate goal of advancing the social impact sector.

Outside of her full-time work, she also serves as a Technical Program Manager with Data Science for Sustainable Development, a nonprofit which completes pro bono technical projects for organizations working on the UN’s SDGs, and work as a research assistant in the PeaceTech and Polarization Lab at the University of Notre Dame. Taking all of this together, the underlying theme of Grace's work is a passion for working for the common good through a tech-enabled peacebuilders lens.

To learn more about Grace's work, please check out her LinkedIn profile.

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

Berghof Disinformation Study:

• Peacebuilding and disinformation: Taking stock and planning ahead - Grace Connors, Emma Baumhofer

Pyramid Graph: 

• Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers - Helena Puig Larrauri, Maude Morrison

Algorithms / Platform Design: 

• The Algorithmic Management of Polarization and Violence on Social Media - Jonathan Stray, Ravi Iyer, Helena Puig Larrauri
• Bridge-building instead of polarization - Felix Sieker
• Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First - Alex Moehring, Alissa Cooper, Arvind Narayanan, Aviv Ovadya, Elissa Redmiles, Jeff Allen, Jonathan Stray, Julia Kamin, Leif Sigerson, Luke Thorburn, Matt Motyl, Motahhare Eslami, Nadine Farid Johnson, Nathaniel Lubin, Ravi Iyer, Zander Arnao
• To Evaluate Meta’s Shift, Focus on the Product Changes, Not the Moderation - Ravi Iyer
• Toward Prosocial Tech Design Governance - Lisa Schirch, Lena Slachmuijlder, Ravi Iyer
• Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders - Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A.

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Martina Richard and Karolin Loch from the Civil Peace Service of AGIAMONDO

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guests are Martina Richard and Karolin Loch and we talk about virtual memory places, moving museums into the digital realm, and the importance of meaningful dealing with the past processes after times of mass violence. 

To learn more about the work of the Civil Peace Service of AGIAMONDO, please check out the organisation's homepage.

And here are the resources mentioned during the interview:

• Casa de la Memoria in Guatemala - for more information click here.
• Genocide Memorial in Guatemala - - for more information click here. 

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Nina Strumpf from the Berghof Foundation

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guest is Nina Strumpf from the Berghof Foundation

To learn more about Nina's work, please check out the organisation's homepage or follow her on LinkedIn/follow Berghof on LinkedIn.

Nina's special resource recommendations mentioned during the show are the following two:

• Sealing the Cracks: An intersectional feminist perspective on digital peacebuilding - for more information click here
• Book: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein: Data Feminism - for more information click here

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

• Digitalisation by Berghof Foundation - for more information click here
• Digital Technologies, Peacebuilding and Civil Society - for more information click here

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Emma Baumhofer from swisspeace

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guest is Emma Baumhofer from swisspeace.

To learn more about Emma's work, please check out the organisation's homepage or follow her on LinkedIn/follow swisspeace on LinkedIn.

Emma's special resource recommendations mentioned during the show are the following two:

• BuildUp and Search for Common Ground: The Digital Peacebuilding Guide - for more information click here
• Podcast: The Tech Policy Press - for more information click here

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

• The swisspeace course on digital peacebuilding - for more information click here

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With George Katz from Bellingcat

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guest is George Katz from Bellingcat.

To learn more about Bellingcat's work, please check out the organisation's homepage or follow the team on LinkedIn.

George's special resource recommendation mentioned during the show is the page of the Public International Law & Policy Group. 

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

• Bellingcat workshops
• Global Legal Action Network
• Audiobook: Eliot Higgins: We are Bellingcat
• Dart Centre for Journalists

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Helena Puig-Larrauri from BuildUp

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guest is Helena Puig-Larrauri from BuildUp.

To learn more about Helena's work, please check out the homepage of BuildUp or follow her on LinkedIn.

Helena's special resource recommendation mentioned during the show is The Cyber Peace Institute: https://cyberpeaceinstitute.org/

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

• The Algorithmic Management of Polarization and Violence on Social Media report: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-algorithmic-management-of-polarization-and-violence-on-social-media
• The Phoenix social media analysis tools: https://howtobuildup.org/programs/digital-conflict/phoenix/

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Matilde Vaca Torrico from the Civil Peace Service of GIZ/Bolivia

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guest is Matilde Vaca Torrico, a methodological advisor in dialogue and conflict transformation as well as a facilitator for dialogue processes

To learn more about Matilde's work, please check out the homepage of GIZ in Bolivia or follow her on LinkedIn.

Matilda's special resource recommendation mentioned during the show are the theories about experimential learning by Kolb and can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolb%27s_experiential_learning

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

• Official website of the Civil Peace Service (CPS/GIZ Bolivia) : https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/31588.html
• School of Dialogue Guide: https://www.bivica.org/file/view/id/5811 (Note: The English version hasn't been uploaded yet. For the English version, please contact the CPS coordinator, Katharina Ross, at [email protected]).
• School of Dialogue video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMw5mMa1WY0 

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Daniel Duke Odongo from Ushahidi

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guest is Daniel Duke Odongo from Ushahidi in Nairobi/Kenya.

To learn more about Daniel's work, please check out the Ushahidi homepage and various social media accounts or follow Daniel on LinkedIn.

Daniel's special resource recommendation mentioned during the show is the organisation How to Build Up. More information about this organisation can be found here. More information about the December 2023 conference in Nairobi can be found here.

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

• The Nepal Monitor by Collective Campaign for Peace in Nepal.

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The Exciting World of Digital Peacebuilding - With Anne-Marie Buzatu from the ICT4Peace Foundation

Welcome back to season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner’s podcast. Season three is all about digital peacebuilding, this highly complex, tremendously exciting, often messy, and quickly developing intersection where emerging technologies and the digital world on the one hand and conflict transformation, peacebuilding, human rights and social justice work on the other hand meet.

Today's guest is Anne-Marie Buzatu, the Executive Director of the ICT4Peace Foundation in Geneva/Switzerland.

To learn more about Anne-Marie's work, please check out the ICT4Peace Foundations' homepage or follow her on LinkedIn.

Anne-Marie's special resource recommendation mentioned during the show is from the ICRC and the ICRC's blog on humanitarian law and policy can be found here as articles or here as  podcast. 

Additional resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows:

• Fondation Hirondelle's homepage can be found here.
• ICRC article  '8 rules for “civilian hackers” during war, and 4 obligations for states to restrain them' can be found here.
• ICRC's podcast 'Humanity in War' can be found here.
• Swiss Government and the ICRC: The Montreux Document on Private Military and Security Companies can be found here.
• United Nation's Open Ended Working Group working on responsible state behaviour in cyber space can be found here.
• Ideas by Costa Rica about responsible behaviour in cyber space can be found here, with comparisons to the position of the USA, the EU, or Canada.
• Yanis Varoufakis' book Technofeudalism can be found here.

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