The Digital Peacebuilder’s Guide (2022)

Digital technologies affect how we experience conflict. Whether it’s hate speech in our social media or bringing together diverse groups for online training, digital tools can harm and help our peacebuilding initiatives. But where to start? How to know if it’s best to build a chatbot, make a video game or teach people about misinformation? … Read more

A Social Media Analysis Toolkit for Mediators and Peacebuilders (2021)

This toolkit is a collaboration between Build Up and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. Our objective is to offer a pathway for peacebuilders and mediators to go from social media data to programming insights.  Many mediators and peacebuilders are interested in using information about actors and narratives on social media to inform programming. Our starting assumption … Read more

Participatory Video and Strategic Communications for Peacebuilding (2019)

This guide provides advice, exercises and notes for local peacebuilders who wish to facilitate a  participatory  video  (PV)  process  in  order  to  enhance  the  resilience  and  peacebuilding  capacities of their communities.   We  believe  PV processes can be an important tool to build peace in a community by giving  voice to grassroots, alternative narratives of peace that might otherwise not be heard. The guide  outlines  ways  in  which  a  PV  … Read more

Where Rumors Can Kill (Foreign Policy, 2016)

Frustrations have been boiling over into violence on the Greek border with Macedonia. Along the razor wire fence, refugees in the Greek town of Idomeni have been stranded with no information about when — or if — the border would ever open. In April, some made a desperate dash for the other side. They were … Read more