Last week I was part of a United Nations Peace Week webinar on “Youth, Peace and Security in the Digital Era: How to make Technology an Ally.”
Link to the video on the United Nations Association YouTube channel here.
My presentation and responses focused on the work that CulturePulse has done with various UNDP offices, explaining how our news and social media analysis tools and multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling sheds light on the role of youth in social cohesion and peacebuilding.
I like the theories of Austrian peace researcher Franz Jedlicka who has examined the linkages between a widespread acceptance of violence in a country that can be identified in its legislation (does it still allow child corporal punishment, violence against women, capital punishment ..) and wars. He lists those countries in his “Culture of Violence Scale” (last updated 2023?). His question “Can countries become sustainably peaceful when already violence against children is accepted?” seems logical to me.
Paul
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