How Can Technology, Social Media Facilitate Being Heard in Being Seen?

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Asa Amanpour: How would we design technology, social media to better privilege or facilitate being heard in being seen? She asks whether it's possible for a low band with medium like tex to do the kind of work that's required. Amanpour: People love those breakthroughs and they want more of them.

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.