Special Advisor of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, chaired a panel on Online Dispute Resolution and Peacebuilding at the 2008 International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution held in Victoria, Canada from 18 - 19 June 2008. 

The Forum has as its purpose the bringing together of the world's leading practitioners, academics, theorists, and online negotiation application developers, to share... continue reading

The ICT4Peace Foundation will conduct a Roundtable on ICT Technologies for Peace-building and Crisis Management on Friday, June 27, 2008, 11:30-13:00, Nehru Centre, Mumbai as part of the Responsibility to the Future: Business, Peace and Sustainability conference organis... continue reading

Cairo, Wednesday 18 June 2008 – Today, the Cairo Regional Centre for Conflict Resolution and Peace-keeping in Africa (CCCPA) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will launch a project, funded by the Government of Japan, to strengthen the capacity of CCCPA as a regional and international centre of excellence in the vital area of peacekeeping and conflict resolution in Africa.

H.E. Assistant Foreign Mini... continue reading

Responsibility to the Future Conference organised by Strategic Foresight Group with ICT4Peace Foundation

26-28 June 2008, Mumbai, India

Roundtable on ICTs for Peace-building and Crisis Management

How can information and communications technologies help build peace, mitigate disaster and efficiently address humanitarian needs? How can they prevent conflicts while enabling companies to earn profits?

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The ICT4Peace Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. The MoU recognises, inter alia, the need to strengthen the role of African States in supporting peacekeeping operations and conflict resolution in Africa, through provision of quality specialised training programmes in the field of peacekeeping and human security and to develop shared situational awareness amongst all actors involved in PKO and humanitarian operations.... continue reading

ICT4Peace Foundation Board Member Maria Cattaui was appointed a member of UN Leadership Group on business and human rights. 

John Ruggie, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative for business and human rights, today announced that he is convening a leadership group to advise him on how best to ensure that busi... continue reading

Call for papers: Improving ICT use in Crisis Management and Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) for ISCRAM 2009

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Inter-operability, and the meaningful use of Information an... continue reading

Strategic Foresight Group released the full conference report of the Responsibility to the Future: Business, Peace, Sustainability event held in Mumbai, India from 26-28 June 2008.

Co-hosted by United Nations Global Compact, the ICT4Peace Foundation was a key partner in the event and organised a panel discussion on ICT4Peace.

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Statement of Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2008 delivered at High-level meeting to discuss Interim Report: Stocktaking of UN Crisis Information Management Capabilities, held on 7th November 2008 at the United Nations in New York.

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