Technology & Design
Mobile Phones Build Peace
New research illustrates how we can overcome challenges facing post-conflict countries like Afghanistan through the use of mobile phones.
Tag: Conflict Resolution
Government
Citizen as Designer
By shifting the responsibility of the citizen from deciding to designing, we can redirect resources away from conflict and toward creating better ideas.
Human Rights
Kony and Kissinger: Jacob and Trayvon
Reflections on social media and the struggle for justice in 2012.
Economic Development
An Agricultural Peace Dividend
In northern Uganda, home to one of Africa’s longest and most brutal civil conflicts, organic farming is producing economic growth and stability.
Excerpt
Social Entrepreneurship
Passion and Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders
Passion and Purpose is a collection of personal stories regarding success and failure in business and leadership.
Social Entrepreneurship
Skoll 2011 Interview: John Marks
Interview with John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit conflict-resolution organization, and head of Common Ground Productions
Economic Development
Neal Keny-Guyer
Neal Keny-Guyer believes that wars, earthquakes, and other disasters create opportunities for Mercy Corps to help improve society.
Human Rights
Airborne Peace
In Rwanda, Radio La Benevolencija uses soap operas to heal ethnic tensions. Listeners who tune into a weekly show about feuding ethnic groups are more likely than non-listeners to stand up to authority and to voice their own opinions.
Podcast
Arts & Culture
Panel Discussion - Skoll World Forum: Conflict Resolution
From investment to football to soap operas to jobs, culture can be a force for good in the world. In this panel discussion sponsored by the Skoll World Forum, experts on social entrepreneurship share their experiences and insights about how to use culture and media as tools for conflict resolution.
Podcast
Nonprofits & NGOs
Randy Martin - Speed and Agility Versus Cost
Randy Martin has been in the business of humanitarian disaster relief for 25 years. In this audio lecture recorded at the Stanford Effective Disruption Management Seminar, Martin shares some of the lessons he has learned on the front lines and investigates possible collaborations across sectors to enhance disaster relief operations.