By: David J. Smith, May 15, 2017 This past week Saturday (5/13) I was at the Youth Peace Conference at Sandy Spring Friends School in Sandy Spring, MD. The conference brought together students from the school and neighboring schools to focus on the “Intersectionality of ‘Isms.'” It was my first time presenting at theContinueContinue reading “Peace Entrepreneurship: Working with Students at Sandy Spring Friends School”
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Responding to Hate Speech and Violence, Silver Spring, MD, 5/23
By: David J. Smith, May 12, 2017 Developing strategies to counter hate speech and violence directed at religious and cultural groups is an important objective of today’s peacebuilding work. If you are based in the DC area, you might want to attend this program on Tuesday, May 23 in Silver Spring, MD. It is especially designedContinueContinue reading “Responding to Hate Speech and Violence, Silver Spring, MD, 5/23”
Strategies to Secure Environmental Defenders, PeaceTech Lab Weekly Update, 5/11
By: David J. Smith, May 11, 2017 PeaceTech Lab publishes a weekly update of news related to technology and peace. This week’s edition features a commentary by Althea Middleton-Detzner from the Peacebuilding Engineer Program reflecting on a Stanford Social Innovation Review article “Protecting the Hearth of Environmental Civil Society” which examine strategies for ensuring safetyContinueContinue reading “Strategies to Secure Environmental Defenders, PeaceTech Lab Weekly Update, 5/11”