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Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Agenda
Pages 51-54

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... Roundtable Charge to the Workshop  the day, we seek to identify promising By the end of strategies for direct application of technology tools and techniques to emerging conflicts. The goal is to provide insights and information to inform the design of field tests of collaboration between local actors, supportive peacebuilders, and expert technologists to increase the constructive impacts of sensing technologies and applications.
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... Candidate Peacebuilding Problems/Settings Joint Presentation: Lawrence Woocher, SAIC Dennis King, State Department Fred Tipson, USIP Candidate Technologies: Joint Presentation: Prabhakar Raghavan, Google Duncan Watts, Microsoft  Patrick Vinck, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m.
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... The Darker Side of Technologies Used to Sense Conflict  all of the potential benefits of various technologies in For facilitating political participation and change, various actors may take advantage of these very capabilities to repress change and even provoke deadly violence. What are the ways that repressive governments or reactionary groups have exploited technologies (or might do so)
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  • peacetech lab
  • supportive peacebuilders
  • dennis king

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