The technology of nonviolence social media and violence prevention

How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Bock, Joseph G.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Subjects
Nonviolence.
Violence > Prevention.
Social media.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262305556
Physical Description1 online zdroj.

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Table of Contents:
  • Towards an applied theory of violence prevention
  • Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities
  • Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad
  • Overcoming gang violence in Chicago
  • Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka
  • Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya
  • Foisting tribal violence in East Africa
  • Comparing the approaches
  • How to intervene effectively
  • What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work
  • Concerns about misallocation of resources
  • Future directions and recommendations.

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