The document discusses how digital technologies can enhance empathy and facilitate dialogue for peacebuilding. It explores various methods like digital storytelling, social media interventions, and mobile reporting to promote understanding across cultural and social divides. The text emphasizes the importance of seeing the world through the eyes of others to foster deeper connections and empathy amidst conflicts.

1. Communication for Peace: How Digital Technologies can Enhance Empathy and Dialogue Carole St. LaurentWeb/MultimediaSpecialistFluidITSolutionswww.fluidITsolutions.com

2. Websites, multimedia, capacity buildingCellular-based storytelling in AustraliaCapacity building in UgandaeGovernment collaboration in CanadaPeace work inspired by Rwandan filmmakerPilot project, www.cryrwanda.com@fluidIT

3. I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller

4. Communication for PeaceDigital technologies enhance empathy and dialogueDigital storytellingSocial mediaInterventions and ActionConflict & incident mappingMobile reporting

5. The ChallengeTrue understanding is hard enough when you share:Common languageCommon cultureCommon standard of livingSimilar life experiences

6. The ChallengeSometimes even the people closest to us seem like they’re from different planets!

7. The ChallengeEven sharing genetic material doesn’tguarantee communication!Daddy’s HomeTony Rubino and Gary MarksteinJuly 8, 2009

8. Peace CommunicationsTrue understanding is even more difficult when you must overcome:Language differencesSocio-economic differencesReligious differencesValues differencesGenerations or even centuries of conflict

9. “Truth”How much of our “given” truth is universal?Misunderstood?Offensive?

10. “Truth”Challenged?

11. Enabling EmpathyHow can we enable deeper understanding and empathy?See the world through their eyes – a world that outsiders cannot usually seeHear sounds from their worldHear their voiceEmpathize with their emotions

12. Digital StorytellingEmpowers people to speak their own truthTranscend geography, timeRich mediums – sights, soundsMultiple speakersComplete, unfiltered messagesUninterrupted messages

13. Digital StorytellingInvites audiences behind the walls which usually obscure “the other” Into homesInto sacred spaces and eventsInto the speaker’s thoughts and emotions

14. Visual StorytellingWaris Ali Chaudhry’s photographshttp://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org

15. Visual StorytellingIsis-WICCE’s annual report in images

16. “Pray for Healing of the World”Painting by David Chapman

17. Homem na Molduraby Humberto PateguanaARMS into ARTa virtual exhibition in cooperation with Núcleo de Arte in Maputo, Mozambiquehttp://www.africaserver.nl/nucleo/eng/

18. ReflectionReflections?How do images impact your empathy for the other?Examples?

19. Oral StorytellingAmos, “If I were in their shoes”U2, Peace on Earth

20. Alternative AccessCell-based stories/reports[murmur] (global)Freedom Fone, ZimbabwePodcastsRadio

21. ReflectionReflections?How does audio impact your empathy for the other?Examples?

22. Power of ForgivenessJean Paul Samputu, www.cryrwanda.com“Forgiveness is a powerful weapon against terrorism and atrocities”

23. Positive Exampleshttp://www.oneworld.am/diversity/photos.htmlAudio slideshow

24. ReflectionReflections?How do audiovisuals impact your empathy for the other?Examples?

25. Social MediaAmazing new media project, http://oneworld.am/diversity/Blog

26. Maps

27. Multimedia

28. Twitter

29. Explore it!Challenging Assumptions“Armenians, please come back and claim your church”AdnanHajizade, Azeri Video Bloggerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjNWWt4OSs“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 2010http://tol.org/client/article/21135-twitter-diplomacy.html

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

31. TwitterShare or read real-time newsSearch #hashtags or keywords

32. Follow organizations or people

33. Create or follow listsUshahidiOnline crisis mapping systemwww.ushahidi.comTweets

34. Emails

35. Web reports

36. MapsUshahidiDeployed in Kenya, DRC, Gaza, etc.Saved lives in Haiti earthquake, 2010Thousands of life-and-death text messagesSkype with Search and Rescue (SAR)Emails from the World Food ProgramSOUTHCOM’s video footage from military drones