Persuasive Technology for Piace

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In the early days of facebook, professor b j fogg successfully got several tec companies to launch something called peace dot so this was the web adress. In the case of face books, it was actually a news feed, or sort of a list of the most recent friend connections being added between israelis and palestinians. And if you think about facebook at that time, you also notice that mostly young people, colls actualy i think, just, or maybe almost just college students coming on line at that time. So now, taking all those lessons and looking at the united states right now, we're looking at a layer cake that was built over a ten year

How many technologists have traveled to Niger, or the Balkans, or Rwanda, to learn the lessons of peacebuilding? Technology and social media are creating patterns and pathways of conflict that few people anticipated or even imagined just a decade ago. And we need to act quickly to contain the effects, but we don't have to reinvent the wheel. There are people, such as this episode’s guest, Shamil Idriss, CEO of the organization Search for Common Ground, who have been training for years to understand human beings and learn how to help them connect and begin healing processes. These experts can share their insights and help us figure out how to apply them to our new digital habitats. “Peace moves at the speed of trust, and trust can’t be fast-tracked,” says Shamil. Real change is possible, but as he explains, it takes patience, care, and creativity to get there.