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By Joseph G. Bock, John Paul Lederach
Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rally supporters and disseminate details because the "Arab Spring" started to spread in 2010. much less popular, yet with simply as a lot capability to result in social switch, are ongoing neighborhood efforts to take advantage of social media and other kinds of know-how to avoid lethal outbreaks of violence. within the know-how of Nonviolence, Joseph Bock describes and records technology-enhanced efforts to forestall violence earlier than it occurs in Africa, Asia, and the us. as soon as peacekeeping used to be the purview of overseas observers, yet this present day neighborhood voters take violence prevention into their very own arms. those neighborhood methods frequently contain technology--including using electronic mapping, crowdsourcing, and mathematical development acceptance to spot most probably destinations of violence--but, as Bock exhibits, technological advances are of little worth except they're utilized by a expert cadre of group organizers. After protecting common techniques in violence prevention and describing technological methods to monitoring clash and cooperation, Bock deals 5 case reports that diversity from "low-tech" interventions to avoid ethnic and non secular violence in Ahmedebad, India, to an anti-gang initiative in Chicago that makes use of moment existence to coach its "violence interrupters." there's stable proof of luck, Bock concludes, yet there's a lot to be found, built, and, most vital, applied.
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These roughly ten thousand villagers were living at a socioeconomic level above the surrounding Muslim villages, mainly because Christian schools provided higher-quality education and relatives with well-paying jobs overseas sent money back home. On February 6, 1997, Shantinagar and a tiny Christian extension of that city, Tiba Colony, were attacked by a Muslim mob from numerous nearby Muslim villages. Piecing together the story of what happened is difficult but, from what I gathered following the destruction, there was a central figure involved in the unfolding of the riot, a Christian male who combined illegal liquor sales with gambling (which is illegal for everyone).
It was in this context that journalists combined efforts to track violence using GoogleEarthTM, forming Ushahidi, a nonprofit technology company that is covered in greater detail in chapters 2 and 6. Toward an Applied Theory of Violence Prevention 21 One conclusion that can be drawn from the framework (though it has not been tested) is that all of the components must be in conditions that are conducive to violence for violence to occur. An alternative view is that if one or more of the components can be influenced through various interventions, then violence can be averted by preventing one or more of the components from going into a conducive state.
It is tactical; it can save lives even though doing so is unlikely to have a strategic impact. 1, occurring, as pointed out earlier, roughly 42 percent of the time (Collier, Chauvet, and Hegre 2008). 2 shows how the wave can keep rising and falling. 2 Oscillations of tensions and violence Conflict oscillations Violence occurs with regularity and often to massive proportions. Before and after the point of severe violence (phases A and C), prevention is strategic. At the height of violence it is more tactical in that local interventions are unlikely to have much effect on the broader state of violence.