ODR and Peacebuilding

Sanjana Hattotuwa

TED Fellow 2011Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation

my work from sri lankamediation, conversation, reconciliation, transformation

one text peace negotiations platform, ~2003

one text peace negotiations platform, ~2003

bearing witness to injusticenew media for social justice

creating sri lanka’s first online civility code

visualising conflictselection violence, student unrest, corruption, constitutional ‘reform’

helping rural communities leverage new mediaaddressing justice and grievances at village level

challengesa view from the trenches

process over technologytaking off the o from odr

Addressable humanityeveryone will own or have access to a mobile

Proliferation of IP devicessystemic conflict

mobile contentODR now recognises mobiles. It doesn’t yet design for mobiles.

Mobile growth Broadband growthVS

technology will influence outcomeswhether by design or ignorance

odr driversat least in domain of conflict transformation

• Geo-location and geo-referencing via Google Maps, Bing etc

• New media and Web 2.0 technologies, including social networking

• Mobiles, especially smartphones in the Global North, voice (including IVR) and SMS in the Global South

• Broadband spread and affordability, especially wireless

the enduring challenges will be

• Privacy, in the age of Facebook

• Culture and context, actors and process, physical vs. virtual

• Transforming investments on PC based platforms, to mobile based platforms

• Engendering the political will to transform complex conflict

• The emphasis on the process, as opposed to the technology - people as opposed to the platform

Thank you

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