✨🙌 #PeaceTech in action: Exciting, first-ever, large-scale digital dialogue with Libyan youth UNSMIL UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs #FuturingPeace 🇱🇾🇺🇳🕊

Happy World Creativity and Innovation Day! 🇺🇳 Innovation helps us keep up with the peace and security challenges of our time and stay fit-for-purpose. ✨ Check out the work of the DPPA Innovation Cell here: futuringpeace.org

How can we leverage the rapid advances in digital technologies for peace? Find out more in the upcoming webinar on 27 May. Join in LIVE from 10AM EDT: youtube.com/user/TCDisisle… #Mediation4Peace #Tech4Peace

In keynote to Bangkok Indo-Pacific Conf, I said: 'Asia' was built by nationalists, 'Asia-Pacific' by economists, 'East Asia' by culturalists, 'Indo-Pacific' by strategists. Though ASEAN is in geographic center, I-P idea promoted by outside powers may erode its autonomy & identity

BREAKING: Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for freedom ti.me/3DmoFGe

Noeleen Heyzer of #Singapore has been appointed as the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for #Myanmar. She will carry on the United Nations's support for peace and stability in the country. un.org/sg/en/node/260…

Just concluded the final virtual dialogue in a series on Futuring Peace in Northeast Asia. Over 80 participants discussed actions towards the futures envisioned by youth & pioneered futures-leaning policy discussions on the Youth, Peace and Security agenda futuringpeace.org/NEA/

Design thinking, immersive storytelling, innovation ideation… Last week, UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and QCRI | معهد قطر لبحوث الحوسبة hosted E-Analytics training, bringing together United Nations professionals and computer scientists to re-examine how new technologies can help prevent conflicts and build peace.

Women's perspectives and concerns are essential for building lasting peace. Ahead of the Security Council's open debate on #WomenPeaceSecurity, listen to Rosemary A. DiCarlo's full message on this in "Behind the Numbers", DPPA's podcast on women peacemakers: open.spotify.com/episode/2b0BYH…

Working with young people and on the Youth, Peace and Security agenda has been one of the most exciting areas of work for me. We will continue to support this and channel their energy, innovation and activism as agents of change to address the most pressing issues of our times.

How can technology generate dialogue and advance peace?💻👥 At the end of 2021, we teamed up with Remesh, Vicepresidencia de Bolivia, & ONU Bolivia to conduct an AI-enabled digital dialogue with over 250 Bolivian citizens. This is one participant’s story: vimeo.com/672345825

تعمل #الجامعة_العربية على تطوير أول استراتيجية عربية إقليمية حول #الشباب_والسلم_والأمن. ندعوك للانضمام إلينا في #حوار عبر الانترنت حول ما يعنيه #السلام و #الأمن للشباب العربي يوم السبت 17 سبتمبر 2022. لمزيد من المعلومات: bit.ly/3RUuDW1 وللتسجيل: rb.gy/wxt0pl

layouts of democracy, interesting to see the few deviations from the theatre type seating

To those who opposed a clear reference to phase out of fossil fuels during the #COP28 Climate Conference, I want to say: Whether you like it or not, fossil fuel phase out is inevitable. Let’s hope it doesn’t come too late.

📢How could technology companies meaningfully involve public perspectives in AI development, and how do they understand or use public participation methods? Our discussion paper aims to inform the conversation around ‘participatory AI’. adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/going-p… (1/6)

The global community is more fragmented and divided than at any time during the past 75 years. Even the Cold War era was, in some ways, less dangerous. Zero-sum mindsets mean everyone may get zero.

#Water security depends on making the right connections. The UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Geoguard is a geospatial dashboard that harnesses data to predict water crises & helps ensure security in vulnerable regions. crafd.io/data-financing…

Water has a ripple effect across many global challenges – from climate change to political unrest. This #WorldWaterDay, let's cooperate on water as a catalyst for progress. Water and peace go hand in hand. buff.ly/3uHV4IF

This UNU-CPR report explores how #AI technologies impact #peace and #conflict, and what methods might be used to mitigate their adverse effects – in Sub-Saharan Africa. 🗞 Read more: unu.edu/publication/di…

Today, we launch #Geoguard - a dashboard that translates raw satellite data into user-friendly insights, enabling users to monitor critical environmental trends such as rainfall, temperature changes, and soil moisture levels. app.geoguard.org #DataForPeace #ClimateSecurity