By Diana Sarosi Our task: finding an innovative, disruptive solution that addresses one problem within the realm of UN Security Council Resolution 1325—also known as the Women, Peace and Security … Continue reading →

By LtCol AF van Daalen People are responsible for starting and ending (violent) conflicts. This means that influencing actors involved in conflicts is the only way to come to a cessation … Continue reading →

By Keith McManamen The #HackingConflict #Diplohack brought together six interdisciplinary teams to address the challenge: how can new technologies be leveraged to empower nonstate actors and civil society groups in … Continue reading →

While most hackathon ideas die after the event, we’d like to see #HackingConflict projects succeed. Below is a list of possible funding sources for teams to consider. If we missed … Continue reading →

By Sarah Saska Throughout my time as a fellow at MaRS Discovery District, Canada’s leading entrepreneurship and innovation hub, I was reminded often that in order to do meaningful work in … Continue reading →

By Kyle Matthews and Nicolai Pogadl Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher of communication theory, wrote in his 1964 book Understanding Media that “all wars have been fought by the latest technology available … Continue reading →

Below are statistics collected about #HackingConflict and participation at the DiploHack challenge. This data was collected from a variety of sources including registration surveys and social media analytics. The Experience Participants … Continue reading →

Article by Jessica Pichard • Header Image by Throne Photography Ottawa was abuzz last week as over one hundred participants undertook Canada’s first-ever #HackingConflict Challenge. On May 27th, 2015, a bevy of diplomats, students, … Continue reading →

Patrick Vinck from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative describes KoBoToolbox and KoBoMap, a digital data collection project to advance human rights research. In addition, Patrick discusses how to share data between … Continue reading →

Ushahidi — Nairobi, Kenya — pioneers free, open source software to collect and map information that advances human rights.