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Communication for Peace: How Digital Technologies can Enhance Empathy and Dialogue <br />Carole St. Laurent<br />Web/MultimediaSpecialist<br />FluidITSolutions<br />www.fluidITsolutions.com<br />

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Websites, multimedia, capacity building<br />Cellular-based storytelling in Australia<br />Capacity building in Uganda<br />eGovernment collaboration in Canada<br />Peace work inspired by Rwandan filmmaker<br />Pilot project, www.cryrwanda.com<br />@fluidIT<br />

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I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. <br />Helen Keller<br />

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Communication for Peace<br />Digital technologies enhance empathy and dialogue<br />Digital storytelling<br />Social media<br />Interventions and Action<br />Conflict & incident mapping<br />Mobile reporting<br />

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The Challenge<br />True understanding is hard enough when you share:<br />Common language<br />Common culture<br />Common standard of living<br />Similar life experiences<br />

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The Challenge<br />Sometimes even the people closest to us seem like they’re from different planets!<br />

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The Challenge<br />Even sharing genetic material doesn’tguarantee communication!<br />Daddy’s HomeTony Rubino and Gary MarksteinJuly 8, 2009<br />

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Peace Communications<br />True understanding is even more difficult when you must overcome:<br />Language differences<br />Socio-economic differences<br />Religious differences<br />Values differences<br />Generations or even centuries of conflict <br />

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“Truth”<br />How much of our “given” truth is universal?<br />Misunderstood?<br />Offensive?<br />

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“Truth”<br />Challenged?<br />

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Enabling Empathy<br />How can we enable deeper understanding and empathy?<br />See the world through their eyes – a world that outsiders cannot usually see<br />Hear sounds from their world<br />Hear their voice<br />Empathize with their emotions<br />

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Digital Storytelling<br />Empowers people to speak their own truth<br />Transcend geography, time<br />Rich mediums – sights, sounds<br />Multiple speakers<br />Complete, unfiltered messages<br />Uninterrupted messages<br />

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Digital Storytelling<br />Invites audiences behind the walls which usually obscure “the other”<br /> Into homes<br />Into sacred spaces and events<br />Into the speaker’s thoughts and emotions<br />

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Visual Storytelling<br />Waris Ali Chaudhry’s photographs<br />http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org<br />

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Visual Storytelling<br />Isis-WICCE’s annual report in images<br />

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“Pray for Healing of the World”<br />Painting by David Chapman<br />

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Homem na Molduraby Humberto Pateguana<br />ARMS into ART<br />a virtual exhibition in cooperation with Núcleo de Arte in Maputo, Mozambique<br />http://www.africaserver.nl/nucleo/eng/<br />

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Reflection<br />Reflections?<br />How do images impact your empathy for the other?<br />Examples?<br />

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Oral Storytelling<br />Amos, “If I were in their shoes”<br />U2, Peace on Earth<br />

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Alternative Access<br />Cell-based stories/reports<br />[murmur] (global)<br />Freedom Fone, Zimbabwe<br />Podcasts<br />Radio<br />

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Reflection<br />Reflections?<br />How does audio impact your empathy for the other?<br />Examples?<br />

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Power of Forgiveness<br />Jean Paul Samputu, www.cryrwanda.org<br />“Forgiveness is a powerful weapon against terrorism and atrocities”<br />

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Positive Examples<br />http://www.oneworld.am/diversity/photos.html<br />Audio slideshow<br />

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Reflection<br />Reflections?<br />How do audiovisuals impact your empathy for the other?<br />Examples?<br />

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Social Media<br />Amazing new media project, http://oneworld.am/diversity/<br /><ul><li>Blog

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Maps

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Multimedia

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Twitter

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Explore it!</li></li></ul><li>Challenging Assumptions<br />“Armenians, please come back and claim your church”AdnanHajizade, Azeri Video Blogger<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjNWWt4OSs<br />“For Armenian Facebook users, this was their first exposure to an image of the “enemy” at odds with that usually portrayed in local media.”Twitter Diplomacy, Onnik Krikorian 2 February 2010<br />http://tol.org/client/article/21135-twitter-diplomacy.html<br />

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Blogs<br />“Twitter Diplomacy” – Web 2.0 tools bridge closed borders<br /> between Armenia and Azerbaijan<br />“It was a virtual hand of friendship extended across a closed border and a 15-year-old cease-fire line.”<br />http://tol.org/client/article/21135-twitter-diplomacy.html<br />

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Twitter<br />Share or read real-time news<br /><ul><li>Search #hashtags or keywords

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Follow organizations or people

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Create or follow lists</li></li></ul><li>Ushahidi<br />Online crisis mapping system<br />www.ushahidi.com<br /><ul><li>Tweets

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Emails

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Web reports

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Maps</li></li></ul><li>Ushahidi<br />Deployed in Kenya, DRC, Gaza, etc.<br />Saved lives in Haiti earthquake, 2010<br />Thousands of life-and-death text messages<br />Skype with Search and Rescue (SAR)<br />Emails from the World Food Program<br />SOUTHCOM’s video footage from military drones <br />

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Ushahidi Haiti<br />Crowdsourcing the Impossible: Ushahidi Haiti http://en.oreilly.com/where2010/public/schedule/detail/14618<br />Tufts map steered action amid chaosBoston Globe, April 5, 2010http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2010/04/05/tufts_project_delivered_aid_to_quake_victims/<br />

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Debate & Dialogue<br />www.debategraph.org<br />Conflicts are complex, controversial<br />Graphicaltool to buildclarity,consensus<br />

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DebateGraph<br />Content/context such as:<br />History <br />Alternatives<br />Arguments for/against<br />

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Reflection<br />Reflections?<br />What does social media add to the picture?<br />What else is possible?<br />Examples?<br />Questions?<br />

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Resources<br />Global Voices (www.globalvoicesonline.org)<br />Aggregates & translates blogs, podcasts, video<br />http://tv.OneWorld.net<br />http://radio.OneWorld.net<br />FastStone Image Viewer, www.faststone.org<br />

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Resources<br />Peace and Collaborative Development Network http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org<br />MiroslavVolf, The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World<br />Remembrance vs forgiving/forgetting<br />Reconciliation vs justice<br />