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”
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College Freshmen: The Most Polarized in 50 Years, The Atlantic, 5/2
By: David J. Smith, May 3, 2017 We are more divided as a nation than ever before. This article by Hayley Glatter from The Atlantic seems to confirm data about the country as a whole. This is counter to what many have thought about millennials – that they try to reach middle ground andContinueContinue reading “College Freshmen: The Most Polarized in 50 Years, The Atlantic, 5/2”
Lebanon based Media Association for Peace (MAP) Promotes Peace Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa
By: David J. Smith, May 3, 2017 The Media Association for Peace, or MAP, based in Lebanon, advances the work of journalists in promoting peace journalism with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa regions. MAP’s vision is to “get to media that play an essential role in peacebuilding especially in conflict andContinueContinue reading “Lebanon based Media Association for Peace (MAP) Promotes Peace Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa”
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