The document provides an overview of digital tools and strategies that can be used for digital activism and peaceful conflict transformation. It discusses how social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, blogs and YouTube can be leveraged to share public opinion, plan actions, protect activists, share calls to action, take action digitally, and transfer resources. It also covers peace journalism and how media can frame conflicts in a way that creates opportunities for non-violent solutions by giving voice to all sides and exploring backgrounds/contexts. Specific digital tools highlighted include Facebook, Skype, Google Hangouts, Flickr, Google Maps, blogs, Twitter, and Global Voices.

1. Digital Activism
- Towards peaceful transformation
of conflicts
Artur Papyan
& Welmoed Verhagen
Peace Work Institute II
11 – 16 June 2013

2. Outline of the session
1. Game on online behaviour
2. What to use
3. Peace Journalism & Media Diversity
4. Internet texts (a.o. SEO)
5. Photo exercise

3. Writing on the windows!
Correct vs incorrect online behaviour

4. The hardware

5. Connectivity – Wireless Broadband

6. Web 2.0
• Wikipedia and Facebook are prime examples
• User generated content
• Interactive
• Conversations

7. Facebook – For personal use
http://www.facebook.com

8. Facebook – For campaigns
http://www.facebook.com

9. Peace on Facebook
http://peace.facebook.com

10. Skype
http://www.skype.com

11. Google+ Hangouts– Community conversations

12. YouTube & Podcasts
http://www.youtube.com

13. Flickr

14. Google Maps +
http://www.ushahidi.com/

15. Blogs
• Can you send an email with an attachment? Then you can
blog!
• Like a diary or journal, but online.

16. Blogs

17. Twitter

18. Global Voices

19. Insight on conflict
http://www.insightonconflict.org/

20. 6 uses of Digital Activism
1. Share public opinion
2. Plan an action
3. Protect activists
4. Share a call to action
5. Take action digitally
6. Transfer resources

21. Peace Journalism
- editors and reporters make choices
- about what to report, and how to report it
- that create opportunities for society to consider
and to value non-violent responses to conflict

22. War Journalism vs Peace Journalism
War Journalism Peace Journalism
Official sources Grassroots
Events Process
Two-sided battle Multi-sided battle

23. Peace Journalism
• Explores backgrounds & contexts. Presents causes and options on
every side.
• Gives voice to views of all rival parties & all levels.
• Offers creative ideas for conflict resolution.
• Exposes lies etc. on all sides & reveals excesses committed by, and
suffering inflicted on, peoples of all parties.
• Pays attention to peace stories and post-war developments.

24. Peace Journalism
Acknowledges that there is
no one correct version of reality
that everyone will agree upon.

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